Administrative and Maintenance Tools - vb Linkchecker Bot 1.1

MaxWCoders present vB Link Checker Bot 1.1

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DESCRIPTION
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1) Checks Rapidshare.de , Rapidshare.com , Sendspace.com , Megaupload.com , Depositfiles.com and Mediafire.com links using cURL.
2) Works for post with all BBCodes.
3) Bins the post if more than specified percent of dead links are found , pms the user about it and posts in that topic
4) If all links are alive it adds specified message at the end of the post and the description.
5) If some links are live and some are dead i.e less than specified % , it makes a thread in a specified forum about it
6)Has a debug mode, to help you debug the errors.
7)Bot doesn't timeout due to MySQL timeout or PHP timeout.
8)It is a product, can be imported and settings can be changed easily.
9)Methods are accessible with keywords.

VBBot Installation How-To
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1. Upload vbbot.php to your root folder where your VB installation is
Note : If you had older version of the bot, delete vbbot.php (or the folder) and replace it by new one.

2. Goto your ACP and go to 'Plugins & Products' and then click on 'Manage Products'

3. In the top box eneter the location of the product-link_bot.xml file on your computer
and then click the 'Import' button.

4. You have just installed the VB Link Checker bot.

5. If you had older version of the bot, delete vbbot.php (or the folder) and replace it by new one.


Setting up and configuring your VB Link Checker
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1. Create a new user that will be used for your Link Checker Bot. Make sure the bot has
the appropriate permissions for where it will be posting. (ie, VIP/Private forums)

2. Create the forums you will be using for good and bad links if you have not done so already.

3. Goto vBulletin Opions and select the MaxWCoders LinkChecker Bot.

4. All the options/setting are pretty self explanatory and each option has the description
of what the setting are for and do. Refer the the bottow of this Read Me of finding the
correct IDs you will need if you are not sure where to look.

5. Once you have everything set up hit the save button at the bottom.


Security
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1. For security reasons, it is highly recommended you rename your bot to something else for instance 63454.php

Running your Link Checker Bot
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1. You can run the bot by setting up a Cron job to run at a set time so you will not have to
run it manually. This can be found in your cPannel of your server.

2. You can call it manually by running vbbot.php (ie. http://www.siteurl.com/vbbot.php)

How to find all of your needed IDs.
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How to find your forum ID:
Just goto the forum in question and the URL will look like the one below.

http://www.yourwebsite.com/forumdisplay.php?f=18 <--- The number at the end of the URL
will be the forum ID. In this example
it is 18.

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How to find your user ID
Find the user that is going to be your bot and click on the user name.
Now look at the URL in the address bar. It should look something like the one below

http://www.yourwebsite.com/member.php?u=2 <--- The number at the end of the URL will be
the user ID. In this example the user ID
is 2.

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Bot in action




Script support on

www.maxwcoders.com

Read the glossary included in the RAR and ZIPs.

Get them at

http://www.maxwcoders.com/bots/downloads/vbbot11.rar

Changelog:
1.0 - 1.1 -> Bug fixes and Product installer

Bugs:

Unfortunately due to time constraints due to exams, I am not able to find the bug fix for the PM bug. Whenever bot tries to PM a certain member with PM disabled, or something similar, it returns a big error. So far only fix for it is, disable PM for that topic and run it again. Maybe after my exams, I can have a better look. Other than that, the new version is just fine

[inteller2k7]

Originally Posted by uzeyir

help me please

Yes you can, in the user settings under (// Start of user defined variables)
change this line( $check = '`forumid` = 2'; //Forums to check )
to match your forum numbers:

and for each forum it has to be entered this way,

`forumid` = 2 OR `forumid` = 3 - This will check both forum id 2 and 3

[uzeyir]

Originally Posted by inteller2k7

Yes you can, in the user settings under (// Start of user defined variables)
change this line( $check = '`forumid` = 2'; //Forums to check )
to match your forum numbers:

and for each forum it has to be entered this way,

`forumid` = 2 OR `forumid` = 3 - This will check both forum id 2 and 3

all forum check ?

[Dman91]

Exel, send me your bot.php
pnosko31 - Comment out the megashares array if it doesnt work
edermix - Try using english and not your language and report back if it works
acco - I will fix this in next version

[kud0gfx]

Dman, no answer for me?

[ShadowAssassin]

Damn, This is soo confusing to setup, why can't you make a product, and we import it, its much easier

[chaot1c]

When it PM's a member, I get a PHP error at the top(don't have the error, because I uninstalled the script for now)
and it sends them the wrong threadid, is there a way to fix this?

[Skavenger]

Any news about the product with ACP config?

Also,

Originally Posted by Skavenger

Is there any way to disable bot's posts and PM system?

[vietdjclub]

Originally Posted by Skavenger

Any news about the product with ACP config?

Also,

read here
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=118

[Skavenger]

Originally Posted by vietdjclub

read here
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=118

I saw that a few days ago, but there is no download link there and I don't understand why you are still linking to that page and not releasing the mod here.

[vietdjclub]

i want to post new thread but the author is not accepting.