XF 2.1 Unfurl leading to Robot Check (Amazon)

[NealC]

I started seeing my amazon links change to "Robot Check" for link titles. Anyone else seeing this? What's the cause and how to fix?

 

[NealC]

Has anyone considered a phrase or some type of system that changes the Robot Check phrase to "Amazon.com"? Like a censorship or something that auto changes one text to another?

 

[NealC]

If you are using an add-on that automatically adds the Amazon tag to amazon links such as Andy's at xf2addons.com you need to turn off the link title feature. Unfurling works fine, apparently the link title is what causes this. I sent Andy some suggestions on how to hopefully improve this so we don't have to turn this feature off due to an add-on. But this seems to have resolved the issue for me.

 

[KensonPlays]

If you are using an add-on that automatically adds the Amazon tag to amazon links such as Andy's at xf2addons.com you need to turn off the link title feature. Unfurling works fine, apparently the link title is what causes this. I sent Andy some suggestions on how to hopefully improve this so we don't have to turn this feature off due to an add-on. But this seems to have resolved the issue for me.

Where is this setting? I searched for "Link Title" "Title" and "Link;" and in his add-ons settings; but couldn't seem to find it.

 

[Kirby]

If you are using an add-on that automatically adds the Amazon tag to amazon links [...] you need to turn off the link title feature.

Hmm, I don't see a relation between getting link titles and adding associate tags to amazon links.

Titles are retrieved automatically when a post is saved while links are parsed at runtime.

If properly implemented, adding amazon associate tags does not require any HTTP calls, at least unless you also want to handle shortlinks (eg. amzn.to) - the latter needs to be implemented as a ProcessorAction so it also runs at save time.

Update
Out of interest I just took a look at the code of the mentioned Add-on. Well, that is ... long, complicated (IMHO waaay too complicated) and contains a lot of duplicated code.

 

[dethfire]

Update
Out of interest I just took a look at the code of the mentioned Add-on. Well, that is ... long, complicated (IMHO waaay too complicated) and contains a lot of duplicated code.

@AndyB

 

[NealC]

Where is this setting? I searched for "Link Title" "Title" and "Link;" and in his add-ons settings; but couldn't seem to find it.

In the admin area click on the search icon top right of the toolbar and type in "unfurl" and that will take you to the settings for this. Above the unfurl is the option to convert to titles

 

[KensonPlays]

In the admin area click on the search icon top right of the toolbar and type in "unfurl" and that will take you to the settings for this. Above the unfurl is the option to convert to titles

Hmm, it's already off on my end. And I do get errors related to unfurling from Andy's mod once in a while.

 

[Alternadiv]

@AndyB I just purchased this add-on but I too am getting the robot check problem. Any word on a potential fix?

 

[beerForo]

I'm using one of the xf2addons that puts my affiliate tag in the link

I as well, and the hyperlink says Robot Check.

 

[beerForo]

Using this one:

Amazon/eBay Parser

This is a direct conversion of the [SolidMean] Amazon and eBay Parser by @SneakyDave done with his permission. It uses 99% of his code. I was not going to include the eBay parser in the beginning, but decided to include it for those that use...

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By @ozzy47

 

[Ozzy47]

I wouldn’t have any idea if the addon is causing any issues.

 

[nrep]

Is there a solution to this without disabling unfurling completely? It's only Amazon causing a problem at the moment.