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

[hscorp]

thanks Dman

i have another question can i run it from another server? how do i connect it with the forum server

what i mean for example server 1 have the forum so i'll put the bot on server 2 how can i connect them?

[Dman91]

mysql remote access....

[hscorp]

i got a bug i think

in megashares if all slots currently filled the bot will see it as broken link

the bot said deleted and when i checked the link i got this

"Your Download Passport is: 8a57a602f6f811466a89dacc48a439e9
You have 250 MB left that you can download with this passport.
Your download passport will renew in 0:116:18.

Megashares Link Information:
All download slots for this link are currently filled.
Please try again momentarily."

and i'm sure about the 777 permission and i see the 1 file at my bot folder that i think is the cookies file for megashares so everything is fine

[Dman91]

Possible, can you link me to the file ?

[hscorp]

http://d01.megashares.com/?d01=46a69cf
http://d01.megashares.com/?d01=27460a2

this links the bot says they are dead

[Dman91]

array("megashares\.com\/\?d01=", "(Click here to download|This link's filesize is larger than what you have left on your Passport|All download slots for this link are currently filled)"),

[DungBeetle]

first, thanks for great mode. I have one question. Everything works fine, but if I have a thread with more post inside, it send me all thread to trash even is only one link dead and the rest of post have valid links. how I will fixed this?

[Dman91]

It only checks first post so you cant help it...

[DungBeetle]

Its maybe possible to make something like this but to report post, not moved to trash?

thanks for support

[Rocc]

I have it trying to run, I believe I configured it correctly but I get
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/xlabrocc/public_html/vbbot.php on line 37
I have
Links checked on ' date('m/d/y') ' by link checker bot'; //This will append this at the end of the checked post
on line 37, any help?