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Create an external tools page #1610

Open bretg opened 5 years ago

bretg commented 5 years ago

We should have a page where links to non-Prebid tools can be placed. Items that help with some component of header-bidding not already well-covered by Prebid, e.g. line item management, debugging.

MartianTribe commented 4 years ago

We've discussed re-doing the external interfaces section since Brightcove is a plugin but Cross-Player is a component. Maybe we bundle this into a category that then gets split between Prebid and non-Prebid items?

justadreamer commented 4 years ago

@bretg could you please share the emails of the engineers we ought to invite into the PubMonkey tool (https://pubmonkey.postindustria.com/) repo for review, the tool has not been open sourced yet and the source is hosted in gitlab, not github, thus we need to invite by email. Thank you.

bretg commented 4 years ago

If you're planning on open sourcing it, we'll wait.

Our teams are very busy right now with high-priority items like GDPR and Price Floors. We won't have time to even consider reviewing any external code bases until probably Q2. In the meantime, I'll bring this topic to our Tools Committee.

Heads up that we may make it a requirement that you join Prebid.org as a Community Member -- https://prebid.org/partners/partners.html

bretg commented 3 years ago

@justadreamer - we received word that you've open-sourced PubMonkey. Cool.

https://github.com/postindustria-tech/pubmonkey

Question - how does this tool work? One of the key things we're going to want to confirm is that the extension is secure -- not connecting to any postindustria servers. Am assuming the extension relies on browser-based authentication to GAM and MoPub and connects to their web API directly, not through a server.

Are you aware of the relatively new Prebid-built command-line tool at https://github.com/prebid/line-item-manager ?

Next steps:

1) Katie will add you guys as Prebid.org community members 2) We'll find a new/interim chairperson for the Tools group 3) Next meeting of the group will discuss the proposal

justadreamer commented 3 years ago

Hi @bretg

PubMonkey is a Chrome Browser Extension - it automates GAM, MoPub and AdMob only by accessing these specific resources when they are open in the neighbor browser tabs. The extension does not connect to any postindustria.com or other external servers, not even for analytics purposes. Chrome Extensions require to explicitly list the domains it needs access to in the manifest.json file - and we only list that of Google and MoPub. So yes we work directly with GAM/AdMob/MoPub.

Yes we are aware about the command line tool that you've built! We find it option-rich and useful for experienced AdOps. PubMonkey is rather a GUI tool and is more basic, having less options than the command line tool, but it is created for lazier or perhaps less technical AdOps folks. One advantage that PubMonkey has - it works not only with GAM, but also with MoPub and AdMob - some of our publisher clients use these platforms. There is an intersection between PubMonkey and Prebid Line Item Manager, but currently these tools complement each other in terms of the use cases.

The next steps sound good! I will have my CEO to re-apply for the community membership - Katie has requested the application from him. We are very keen to help advance Prebid ecosystem in various ways. Currently we work with several mobile publishers and bidders, helping them to bootstrap the Prebid integrations. We hope this is just a start of our contributions into Prebid. Thanks!

bretg commented 3 years ago

@justadreamer - is this still something you guys want to move forward with?

We would just need to have someone inspect the code.