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

[acco]

Has anyone come across a problem with PM's from the link checker?

I get this error msg in firefox when accessing my PM's only from the link checker (it's not a vbulletin error)

The page you are trying to view cannot be

shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression.

Any ideas?

Talked to 3 of my mods & all except for one say the same thing, they get an error when accessing the PM's from LC.

Checking the database & the PM's are their ok.

[Dman91]

Well, you are the first one facing this problem and tbh i dont know why is this error caused you may wait for next version.

[Kaycee123]

Originally Posted by Dman91

indeed, it was my bad
Replace this by

$check = '`forumid` != 47 OR `forumid` != 146';//Forums to check

Whenever you use != to check, use AND
this

$check = '`forumid` != 47 AND `forumid` != 146';//Forums to check

OK, that makes sense - thanks!

[FRANKTHETANK 2]

If you can't get support here i suggest going to their site and getting support that way. With in five minutes of talking to Dman he got my link checker working. Here is their link.

http://www.maxcoders.com

I can't wait for the updates

One question though. What exactly do I do if I want it to check my entire board since I have 1000's of links.

[Psylithium]

Awesome for a warez site ;D.

Tested, works great.

Thanks.

[pnosko31]

was working great then all of a sudden:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: curl_init()

(yes I have curl - and it worked just fine for a few hundred threads till it decided to crap out on me...)

[acco]

Originally Posted by Dman91

Well, you are the first one facing this problem and tbh i dont know why is this error caused you may wait for next version.

I think I may of found the reason for why I get errors with the pm system & LC but I'm not hot on this stuff & I wouldn't know why my forum use a slightly different way when it comes to this little snippit of code within your php.

$pma = "a:1:{s:2:\"cc\";a:1:{i:$uid;s:4:\"$uname\";}}";

looking at PM's pulled from the read pms hack I see this for working PM's

a:1:{s:2:"cc";a:1:{i:1;s:6:"acco";}}

and this from the LC

a:1:{s:2:"cc";a:1:{i:1;s:4:"acco";}}

Am I on to it?

Thanks
acco

[pnosko31]

Originally Posted by pnosko31

was working great then all of a sudden:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: curl_init()

(yes I have curl - and it worked just fine for a few hundred threads till it decided to crap out on me...)

ok I got it back working. the problem only happens with megashare links

[exel]

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in /home/ultimate/public_html/forum/vbbot.php on line 36

[edermix]

Originally Posted by edermix

Well, here is to ask for download?

This is integrated with Vbulletin? What address?

Originally Posted by edermix

Ok my dear:

Attachment 86845

Very Thanks. I look forward to in their analysis

Please!