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

[Skavenger]

thanks for the new version!

Could you add an option to disable bot posts?

Other thing you could add is an option to add custom BBCodes to get removed so the bot can get the real link, some users use a download box or something like that to put all the links.
Also megaupload messages in all languages.

I'll be reporting if I find any bug.

thanks again!

[paketeto]

Thanks for replying, Dman.

Could you add the option for the bot to explore all replies in posts and not only the first one?

Thank you.

[furst]

Good hack, but still very rough around the edges. Hope to see an updated version soon.

Thank you for the hack.

[Dman91]

@Skavenger - Thanks for suggestions, I will look into them.
@paketeto - Not really, I have never looked forward to it.
@furst - You mean binning incorrectly? That is a very complicated issue, and needs your co-operation.
I have just found out that megaupload sometimes blocks your IP and sometimes instead of showing the link as alive, bot shows it as dead.

[tommyturnage]

You ever fix the problem I was having

[Dman91]

Not really, its megaupload blocking the IPs.

[dxflw]

Warning: set_time_limit() [function.set-time-limit]: Cannot set time limit in safe mode in [path]/vbbot.php on line 22
Error : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '))' at line 1on query :SELECT `threadid` ,`firstpostid`, `forumid`, `replycount`, `title` FROM `thread` WHERE `time_check` = '0' AND `ignore_check` = '0' AND (`forumid` NOT IN ())

my board is 3.7.3

[Dman91]

For set_time_limit get safe mode disabled. For the second error, have you set the forums to want to check?

[howcome]

it scanning deposit files saying there dead when they're alive links and i got a question is there anyway to make a cron job to

http://www.yoursite.com.com/vbbot.php?method=allei

do that link?

[momo2]

I decided to install this, well i have over 90,000 posts all with rs or mu filefactory and i tell u in 45 mins it found over 12 pages of dead links it would have taking me for ever to test them
thanks i got few Questions ! the page vbbot.php i see unchecked ignore 1 day etc what are they for ???