Clean content: ad filter and footer trimming
Content goes to the platforms without ads, footers and clutter.
The problem
When cross-posting from someone else's or an aggregator channel, junk gets into the posts: ad integrations, footer signatures like 'Subscribe | Submit news', links to other channels. Cleaning every post by hand is manual work again.
How Crosslybot solves it
Crosslybot cleans content on the fly: the ad filter cuts out promotional posts, footer trimming removes the tail by marker, word replacement fixes the needed fragments. Only clean text goes to the platforms.
Crosslybot cleans content on the fly during cross-posting. When posts come from someone else’s or an aggregator channel, junk gets into them: ad integrations, branded footers, links to other channels.
The ad filter cuts out promotional posts by rules (erid, hashtags, stop-words, links, phone numbers), footer trimming removes the tail by marker, and word replacement fixes the needed fragments at word boundaries. Only clean text goes to the target platforms — with no manual proofreading of each post.
How to set up
Connect a project
Set up the source and target platforms in @Crosslybot.
Enable the ad filter
Set the rules: erid, ad hashtags, stop-words, links, mentions, phone numbers.
Set up footer trimming
Specify the footer marker — the line with it and everything below will be removed from the text.
Add word replacements
If needed, set word and symbol replacement rules — for example, someone else's brand to yours.
What's inside
Ad filter
Cuts out posts with erid, ad hashtags, stop-words, links, mentions, phone numbers and email.
Footer trimming
Removes the source channel's branded 'footer' by marker — case-, markup- and emoji-insensitive search.
Word replacement
Replaces the needed words and symbols by rules — at word boundaries, so nothing extra is touched.
Result
Clean content goes to the platforms, without ads and someone else's signatures. The channel looks tidy, and nothing needs to be cleaned up by hand.
FAQ
What exactly does the ad filter catch?
The erid marker, ad hashtags, arbitrary stop-words, any links, @username mentions, phone numbers and email — you set the rule set yourself.
How does footer trimming find the right spot?
You specify a marker — a fragment of the footer. The line with the marker and everything below are removed. The search ignores case, markdown and emoji.
Won't word replacement touch words where the fragment is inside?
No. Word replacement works at word boundaries — 'cat' isn't replaced inside 'category'. Emoji and symbols are replaced by exact match.
Are these features available on the free plan?
The ad filter is available from the Mini plan. Footer trimming and word replacement are part of the target settings.
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