Introducing: www.amputatorbot.com | Remove AMP in just one click!

https://www.reddit.com/r/AmputatorBot/comments/eb6uwi/introducing_wwwamputatorbotcom_remove_amp_in_just/

created by Killed_Mufasa on 15/12/2019 at 23:51 UTC*

58 upvotes, 6 top-level comments (showing 6)

*TL;DR:** **amputatorbot.com**[1] **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 Reddit[2] with more than 37k karma. Which is quite impressive since the bot is still so young and there are more than 14.000 bots on Reddit(!). But more importantly, the bot has spread awareness about AMP all over Reddit. It has replied to over 6100 comments, commented on more than 2000 unique posts and you guys have summoned the bot almost 250 times. Pretty cool if you ask me.

2: https://botrank.pastimes.eu/

Over the last couple of months, I've been adding a bunch of new features and fixed a ton of bugs. You guys have given me really useful feedback, like u/hrtfthmttr a couple of days ago, he asked[3]:

3: https://www.reddit.com/r/AmputatorBot/comments/c88zm3/why_did_i_build_amputatorbot/f9r2z1v

The bot is able to find the correct link. How am I supposed to do that?

Then, it hit me. I never fixed the original problem, it was *still* incredibly difficult to find the canonical link. Sure, you could let u/AmputatorBot do the hard work but it can be a real hassle to summon the bot and wait for an answer. Also, the popularity of u/AmputatorBot has an unwanted side-effect: rate-limits are hit at peak times, preventing the bot from doing it's job (and thus preventing you from ever getting the direct link).

*With** **www.AmputatorBot.com**[4] **we fix both.**

4: https://www.AmputatorBot.com

You can head over to amputatorbot.com[5] from your desktop or mobile:

5: https://www.amputatorbot.com

https://preview.redd.it/wvvjusui78841.png?width=2340&format=png&auto=webp&s=51a954df353ca476573d22520e68b8b0587fc696

And you can copy-paste an AMP URL in the input field and copy the the canonical link (= direct link) and... That's it!

A demo of amputatorbot.com on how to get the canonical link in under 6 seconds(!)

*Alternatively, you can do it even quicker by doing this:**

https://amputatorbot.com/?q=https://www.google.com/amp/s/electrek.co/2018/06/19/tesla-model-3-assembly-line-inside-tent-elon-musk/amp/[6][7]

6: https://amputatorbot.com/?q=https://www.google.com/amp/s/electrek.co/2018/06/19/tesla-model-3-assembly-line-inside-tent-elon-musk/amp/

7: https://amputatorbot.com/?q=https://www.google.com/amp/s/electrek.co/2018/06/19/tesla-model-3-assembly-line-inside-tent-elon-musk/amp/

It's build up like this:

`https://amputatorbot.com` + `/?q=` + `https://www.google.com/amp/s/electrek.co/2018/06/19/tesla-model-3-assembly-line-inside-tent-elon-musk/amp/`

It only takes a couple of seconds! The tool will always be FREE to use and I hope to keep it ad-free for as long as I can afford it (that's why I added the donate button[8] (see what I did there ;) )

8: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=EU6ZFKTVT9VH2

I'm really proud of this one so I hope you guys will like it! Please let me know if you've found a bug or if you have an idea for the website. Appreciate all the feedback and support <3

Edit: You can now also use the website to generate comments like the ones from AmputatorBot, more info about that here[9], here's what that looks like:

9: https://www.reddit.com/r/AmputatorBot/comments/jmyh66/new_generate_comments_similar_to_the_ones_from/

Introducing: www.amputatorbot.com | Remove AMP in just one click!

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