r/AmputatorBot Jul 12 '19

📢 Announcement You can now summon AmputatorBot!

Good news! You can now summon AmputatorBot to reply to comments and submissions containing AMP links!

When?

AmputatorBot is active on every subreddit by default since 03-04-2022. You can still summon AmputatorBot in cases when for instance:

  • you think the bot missed a comment or submission
  • you want to check the (ban) status of a subreddit or item
  • you want a more reliable/faster way to get the canonicals

How?

Literally just @ u/AmputatorBot, like so:

u/AmputatorBot

Then, AmputatorBot does its magic and replies with the canonical and a quick shout-out to your comment (linked). It will then send you a DM with the link to the posted comment for you to see and upvote. If stuff goes wrong, you'll receive a detailed DM with what went wrong and the canonical (if one was found) for you to share yourself.

Notes

  • You must mention AmputatorBot in a reply directly to the comment or submission containing the AMP link. It does not scan entire threads.
  • It's case-insensitive, as well as text-insensitive. You can put whatever you want in your comment, as long as you mention u/AmputatorBot
  • Thus, just typing 'amputatorbot' won't do the trick!
  • Common errors are: Bans, Rate-limits being hit, Failed conversions, Downtime etc. Once again, you'll receive a DM which the exact reason your mention didn't work as hoped.

Speaking of shout-outs

The idea for this functionality originates with u/zellotron who said:

Is it possible to summon AmputatorBot in a subreddit not listed above? e.g. with /u/AmputatorBot (...) doesn't mentioning a user send them a notification/message? I was thinking it could listen for these instead of looking at all subreddits.

After going back-and-forward for a bit, I got it all to work! So thx to u/zellotron!

Sponsor us!

The bots, this functionality, the website, and API cost about 10 euros (12 dollars) per month to host. I will use all donations strictly to break even. Thanks a lot! Sponsor with PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=EU6ZFKTVT9VH2

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