Well I have been testing this one out and it is going nuts on me. The feeds I have are from Racing sites and they come in every few hours. Bad thing is that it is grabbing even the old stories over and over. 8 stories have been repeated on the site 12 times now.

This is nuts. Is there a better way to have it check for dupes? I know in the other RSS feed hack they have sorted that out. I would like to see that in this one. :\

i had the problem of reoccuring threads by my bot too...

the reason was an additional space in the "title-tag"!

instead of <title>here the headline</title> there was <title>here the headline </title> in the rss-feed.

so the bot couldn't recognize, that the thread (without the whitespace) still exists.

my sollution:

find:
and just add above:
now it is working fine again! :)

now it is working fine again! :)[/QUOTE]The .php file is ready for cron, to save a query could we setup this through the scheduler from vbulletin?

I set it up as a scheduled task and it appears to work fine: except some feeds duplicating. I'm not sure why but the post two up may hold the answer...

I've been meaning to make an update fixing the bugs discussed so far, but just haven't had the time.

Probably at the weekend I will do so.

Do the trimming of the thread title mentioned here, and hopefully that erases some duplicate threads that are only off by whitespace.

This hack checks for threads of the same title that already exist, and if they do, it wont post them again. Unless there is a bug. ;)

Nobody??? :ermm:

C.

do you have changed that:(step8 installation)

Yes I have...

If this path (chdir) is incorrect, the error is in line 42...

But it is correct...

If I set the full path to the global.php , I get this error:

C.

Well I installed it. I went on add bot and entered the user ID 1.

After it I got following message:

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.3:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT articlebot.userid,
articlebot.articlebotid, user.username
FROM articlebot
LEFT JOIN user
USING (userid)
WHERE articlebot.userid = 0

mysql error: Table 'help.articlebot' doesn't exist

mysql error number: 1146

Date: Tuesday 20th of July 2004 12:12:16 PM
Script: http://www.spiritual-connections.com...ebot_admin.php
Referer: http://www.spiritual-connections.com...min.php?do=add
Username: xxx
IP Address: xxxx

every time if I am trying to open my forum this appears.

Can anybody help me, please

it can't be, sorry.

please provide:
- where is your forum located? (full path!) you can xxx some chars to mask your path
- where is your articlebot.php located? (full path!)
- how do you call articlebot.php? cron? direct?

you can't edit line 43 - the only line to edit is 42!