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

[Skierpetros]

i take errors on 3.8

[GCSkye]

Originally Posted by KissOfDeath

now i'm getting a problem where it's pm?ng the wrong users, and don't know if it because of an incompatibility issue with 3.8 or if i shouldn't have set the cron job up for

http://www.mydomain.com/forums/vbbot.php?method=all

?

Seems to be working fine with 3.8.2. The only problem is concerning pms.

The problem seems to be coming from it trashing a thread. After it trashes a thread it sends the proper pm to the proper user. After that it will send the same pm to everyone with a dead thread in that session.

At least that is what I believe. Possible solution coming soon?

[BobbyT]

Tagged for future reference.

[Terminatoronly]

Hello,
thanks for your effort sarkar , this is a lovely script that i really wanted.
i am getting an error when i am trying to run the vbbot file:

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 ())

but when i filled every option of this script on admincp and then run the vbbot i get this error:

Warning: set_time_limit() [function.set-time-limit]: Cannot set time limit in safe mode in [path]/vbbot.php on line 22
Unchecked | Ignored | 1 Day | All except ignored | All | Debug Mode
Current Method : Checking unchecked topics

Please help

[Skierpetros]

Originally Posted by Terminatoronly

Hello,
thanks for your effort sarkar , this is a lovely script that i really wanted.
i am getting an error when i am trying to run the vbbot file:

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 ())

but when i filled every option of this script on admincp and then run the vbbot i get this error:

Warning: set_time_limit() [function.set-time-limit]: Cannot set time limit in safe mode in [path]/vbbot.php on line 22
Unchecked | Ignored | 1 Day | All except ignored | All | Debug Mode
Current Method : Checking unchecked topics

Please help

which version you use 3.7.x or 3.8.x

[bleros]

Warning: set_time_limit() [function.set-time-limit]: Cannot set time limit in safe mode in [path]/vbbot.php on line 22
Unchecked | Ignored | 1 Day | All except ignored | All | Debug Mode
Current Method : Checking unchecked topics

Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in /home/www/web1/html/vbbot.php on line 50

[Terminatoronly]

3.7.x thanks

[Terminatoronly]

Originally Posted by Skierpetros

which version you use 3.7.x or 3.8.x

3.7.x

[dancue]

A few questions I have for you:

If the link is within a code tags, will it be checked?
Should I be getting a note in the original post which states when the links were checked? I'm not getting any.

If the link is not parsed will it be checked?

The PM issue I'm receiving is with the threadid being the same one used for every PM.

[sargatanas]

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 ())

after i run the vbbot.php, please help'