We’ve had some trouble recently with posts from aggregator links like Google Amp, MSN, and Yahoo.

We’re now requiring links go to the OG source, and not a conduit.

In an example like this, it can give the wrong attribution to the MBFC bot, and can give a more or less reliable rating than the original source, but it also makes it harder to run down duplicates.

So anything not linked to the original source, but is stuck on Google Amp, MSN, Yahoo, etc. will be removed.

  • Rooki@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    6 hours ago

    MBFC API is free as they gave us access for us as a Non Profit.

    We already had in mind adding these sources to our bot but we didnt had the time and knowledge how to scrape that. Personally i would like to host it on our own server so that we dont require you to use your own money just for one bot, in what programming language did you write it?

    Thanks a lot!
    Rooki

    • nmtake@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      5 hours ago

      Since it’s a MediaWiki page you can get Markdown source of the page with appending action=raw query to the URL.