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

[momo2]

humm it worked excellent, after 2 hours it stopped, why ? does need to be reset ?

[momo2]

ok few extra Q my forum has many sub forums, according to u this does not do the repeated numbers so if i have 30 forums and 100 subs this skips the repeated numbers ? that's going to be a problem each of my sections have like 20 subs

[soundbarrierpro]

Originally Posted by momo2

humm it worked excellent, after 2 hours it stopped, why ? does need to be reset ?

It doesn't work all by itself. You have to setup automatically on your server with a thing called a cron job, or run it manually.

[momo2]

Well all i know i now have a clean forum, it found over 4000 dead links threads

Results stats in 9 hours work..

Threads: 52,068, Posts: 83,130, Members: 168,577

Threads: 48,488, Posts: 76,629, Members: 168,637

[Behzad Varedi]

Hello,

first, thank for this great mod.
when I import the xml and try to run "http://www.yourwebsite.com/vbbot.php" I get this error:

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` IN ())

please tell me what should I do.
thanks

[Dman91]

@Behzad Varedi - Looks like a bug, many people are getting the same error, I will work on a fix asap.
@howcome - Please PM me the link where it does that.
@momo2 - Can you explain again?

[cabledr]

it seems to report rapidshare direct links dead ie ones that start rs182 any help ?

[andrewtr89]

Thing works better than good. Only problem is it has a problem with links coded like Click here to download

It seems to just count them all as dead.

[Dman91]

@Behzad Varedi - Its not a bug, you have not configured the bot lol.
@cabledr - If the rapidshare link checker regards a link as dead, so will the bot. Nevertheless, would you PM me an example link?
@andrewtr89 - This shouldn't be happening, PM me board url with MSN info etc.

[momo2]

Originally Posted by Dman91

@Behzad Varedi - Looks like a bug, many people are getting the same error, I will work on a fix asap.
@howcome - Please PM me the link where it does that.
@momo2 - Can you explain again?

well i been using it and now my forum is semi cleaned, how ever like i said b4, it does have a bug, I'm %100 sure of it, i can see some posts it say this posts has been checked by the linkchecker with the date, and most other ones do not have this, so that means it did not check them, I'm willing to pay for a pro version as my forum is all about links, and i must have a fully working functional hack like this !!! i know i have a large forum but i also have a super fast dedicated server, and yet when this thing running my forum lags big time !!! so i only install it when i want to run it !!!