AmputatorBot.com | Remove AMP from URLs in just one click! (more info)
Open-sourced on GitHub (more info)
You can summon the bot by mentioning it like this: u/AmputatorBot
*TL;DR: Google’s AMP is a threat to the Open Web and your privacy.
Update #1: AmputatorBot is now open source!
Update #2: You can now summon AmputatorBot!
TL;DR: Google’s AMP is a major threat to the Open Web and your privacy.
AMP means “Accelerated Mobile Pages” and is a framework designed to make websites faster. In many cases, it does exactly that. However, it comes at a high price.
AMP is a massive power-grab by Google that threatens the Open Web. AMP was developed in secret alongside some news corporations. By the time it was made, G
Hi everyone! I'm glad to announce the release of AmputatorBot v3.0: Better bot.
AmputatorBot is a little over a year old now, and although I've released multiple versions since then, the core codebase has always stayed essentially the same. But overtime, the codebase became obsolete and more spaghetti-ish. Additionally, I wanted to improve the quality of both the front-end and back-end. I ultimately decided to rewrite AmputatorBot from the ground up. That was challenging, but allowed me to finally fix all the things that had been bugging
Hey folks,
Starting today, u/AmputatorBot is active site-wide by default. Meaning: there's no longer a select list of subreddits where it does or doesn't work. This was becoming unmaintainable, unreliable and out-of-date, so it was a long time coming. I'm giving the power back to the mods, who can simply ban or unban AmputatorBot to their liking (sorry for the initial spam tho!)
tl;dr:
All the s
A couple of days ago, user u/unbeatable_101 posted the following on r/AmputatorBot:
Is there a good Twitter alternative for this bot?
My answer was as follows:
Not that I'm aware of, but I've reserved the username just now: https://twitter.com/AmputatorBot ;)
But, and this is a big but, it's a totally different platform with new rules, new API, new edge-cases, new code required, another platform to maintain and more resources needed etc etc, so I can't make any promises just yet. All I can promise right now is that I'll look into it and that I'll get back to you once I made up my mind.
As I wrote that, I realized that this was go
TL;DR: amputatorbot.com is live and it's pretty cool!
Oh boy, this is a big one :D
But first, a bit of nostalgia:
A couple of months ago, I found myself really fed up with AMP. For the obvious reasons, I wanted to avoid it, but I saw the AMP links everywhere. I couldn't blame them, because it it was really stuffed down our throats and it was incredibly difficult to find the canonical link of the original source. I figured, someone must have made a bot to get rid of these fuckers, right? To my surprise, I couldn't find anything. And thus the idea of u/AmputatorBot was born.
And as of today, u/AmputatorBot is in the [top 125 'Best bots' of Redd
Hey everyone,
First off, a big shout out to every one of you as we've hit a significant milestone - we now have 1,000 members on this subreddit! It's been amazing to witness your enthusiasm, particularly during times when I haven't been as active as I'd like. Seeing you all making the most of the API, spreading the word, and creating some truly awesome stuff has been nothing short of inspiring. So, a massive welcome to all our newbies and a heartfelt thank you to each and every one of you!
However, today's update isn't all sunshine and roses. Our dear friend AmputatorBot has hung up its hat on Twitter. The cause? Twitter's recent restructuring of their API, which has not only introduced a
I noticed this new style of Google proxy link. Instead of the usual AMP address that is pretty easy to spot, Google spits this out now:
https://www.google.com/url?q= (the stolen website URL)
Whether it's connected to AMP or not, it would be highly appreciated to include these kind of links in AMPbot because I am so sick of Google's bullshit games. We don't need to pass through any form of Google to go to random non-google sites.
##Bug report:
In this comment we had the link:
AmputatorBot was summoned and it ended up with this link:
And this message:
Still AMP, but no longer cached - unable to process further
The canonical URL should be:
Want to do this with r/BritishColumbia being the largest, and possibly r/Truckers as well as many other smaller subs that I take care of.
Thanks for any suggestions or help!
First off thank you for this bot, you're doing god's work.
In the comment the bot leaves, I suggest changing "These should load faster" to "These could load faster". Well-made webpages are faster without AMP than with it, especially when visited via direct link rather than Google search results.
You may also want to add a note about Google currently facing an anti-trust lawsuit over AMP, amongst other things.
The automod keeps removing it and I can’t figure out how to fix it. I tried making the bot an approved submitter but that didn’t help
Hi there! Reddit automatically archives posts after 6 months, which makes it impossible for people to make new comments. Last time I 'solved' this by reposting the same FAQ, but that makes it hard to maintain, all the handy comments are gone and people understandably get confused by having two copies of the same post. With this half-yearly discussion thread, I hope to make it possible for people to start discussions instead of only participating in those already established (replying is still possible).
Just leave a comment here if you have something to get of your chest after reading one or more of these archived posts:
Hi guys! I'm back from the death to announce some things I'm really excited about :)
That's right, after the many requests from you, I made one! Check it out: API Documentation & Postman.
[A screenshot of the API Documentation (do not reference ;)](https://preview.redd.it/a56fxglrij881.png?width=999&format=png&auto=webp&s=f09f64c215636bd4b4129794b5498
