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]

Originally Posted by sarkar

Our next version would have the product installer

I'll be waiting for that

[rmxs]

Sugestion:

What i thing its good for all.
When you make the product i dont know how you thing is the working progress byt all i thing we have 10 or more differect link categories like music movies or software..

User select to run the script...
Script reply With enter the forum number to check enter the trash can number..

with this way every forum can have differect trash can and th user doesnt need to change all the time the trash id.

What you thing?

[rmxs]

Something that i forget..

How can i change check method?

[pierians]

The script freezes after five minutes of checking and then i have to run the
vbbot.php?deletefile script and then the vbbot.php again manually.

What is the problem?

EDIT

I Don't even get the "Now script will pause for 15 seconds" message, the script just freezes.

[Dman91]

@rxms you cannot change the check method one all new topics have been checked run the bot once again to check old topics...
Question : Would you guys like a feature to change methods ?
@pierians you are facing the classic rs error. (It happens when rs links dont respond to fix this)
You can either ignore this topic or delete it (to know how to ignore read the faq in maxwcoders.)
how did i find out what topic its hanging at ?
i replaced

    $tid = $re1['threadid'];

by

    $tid = $re1['threadid'];
   echo $tid;
   exit();

so it would just tell me the value of $tid and stop and you can make the necessary action now replace

    $tid = $re1['threadid'];
   echo $tid;
   exit();

by

    $tid = $re1['threadid'];

Edit : You have just given me an idea for debug mode - thanks

[steve1966]

its a shame this did not work for me as I imported my board from phpbb all posts from that earlier time was not being picked up and it sent hundreds of working links to the junk

i had to restore my forum because there was far too many links for me to move back

[Dman91]

Yeah because i told you had an option to prune old posts (most of them would have dead links)

[pierians]

Originally Posted by Dman91

so it would just tell me the value of $tid and stop and you can make the necessary action now replace

    $tid = $re1['threadid'];
   echo $tid;
   exit();

by

    $tid = $re1['threadid'];

Edit : You have just given me an idea for debug mode - thanks

So, to see if i got it right, the only thing i have to do, to stop hanging, is to replace this code

    $tid = $re1['threadid'];
   echo $tid;
   exit();

with that one?

    $tid = $re1['threadid'];

[Dman91]

Yes after you have deleted/ignored topic

[pierians]

Hmm, when it frozed i runned the deletescript so i don't excactly know which threads are problematic...
So this doesn't help me a lot :-(

Sorry i now saw that you told me how to do this in your previous post.

The thing i'm doing now, for the script to complete one full search of my site, is:
I've opened 2 tabs one is the vbbot.php and the other is vbbot.php?=delete
and i've made those tabs automatically refresh every five minutes.