Auto Post Google Alerts

I will no longer be supporting this hack as 3.6.x supports feeds, making this hack obsolete.

This hack will automatically post to a forum of your choice, as a user of your choice, any Google alert received. In fact, it should work for any alert service.

If you do not know what Google Alerts are, see this page:

Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic.

Requirements:

A POP email box to receive Google Alerts.

Install is simple. Upload the PHP file, install the product, define the settings in adminCP, test, and set up a scheduled task in the adminCP then:

Click Install

You can limit who can post alerts by restricting domains allowed to email the POP box. I advise you use a secret, previously unused POP box/email address. Any mail in the POP box that is not in the domain list is deleted, otherwise it is posted.

I will offer support as I can here, or in the forum at my website at www.worldwidecreations.com

This modification is FREE of charge, but if you wish to reward me for my work, and encourage future modifications by me, please donate below:

[Jafo232]

If that is the only error you get, that is fine. The error will not happen if it is loaded via the cronjob.

[hypnoticpimp]

i dont understand , How is this fine? lol i cant use this page , if i get that error, so how do i fix it

[Jafo232]

Originally Posted by hypnoticpimp

i dont understand , How is this fine? lol i cant use this page , if i get that error, so how do i fix it

You do not call the vbox.php script directly, only for testing purposes.

[blogtorank]

Great addon, ever changing content is always good to keep the engines running. Now all we need is a complete list to receive email alerts from all the sources out there, off I go to start compiling

Edited and added for others to see here for a nice list: http://www.journalismnet.com/choose/newsalerts.htm

[blogtorank]

Found something pretty annoying within the E-Mails received that are posting to the threads:

Remove this Google Alert:

http://www.google.com/alerts/remove?...xxxxxxxxxxx=en

Create another Google Alert:

http://www.google.com/alerts?hl=en

Sign in to manage your alerts:

http://www.google.com/alerts/manage?hl=en

Sent from googlealerts-noreply@google.com

Well to fix that, open up vbox.php inside whatever editor you use and search for the following line:

if ($vbulletin->options['gvbfilter']) {

Add above:

$content = substr($content, 0, strpos('- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -', $content));

What this does is get rid of the junk signature from the emails

Hope this helps anyone out! Still an awesome hack! :banana:

All the best!

[Alphaline]

Originally Posted by Jafo232

Will not work for 3.0, only the 3.5 series.

Hi Jafo

Nice to see you here. I have utilized some of your scripts at your site wwc.... however, when you say the 3.5 series I just wanted to make sure it also includes the 3.5.4

Otherwise, great job........ very useful for my needs. [have clicked install] :-)

Alphaline

[Jafo232]

Originally Posted by Alphaline

Hi Jafo

Nice to see you here. I have utilized some of your scripts at your site wwc.... however, when you say the 3.5 series I just wanted to make sure it also includes the 3.5.4

Otherwise, great job........ very useful for my needs. [have clicked install] :-)

Alphaline

Yes, works fine for 3.5.4.

[Neo_obs]

I have a question we cant get this to work right. We want it so that all posts are moderated first and preapproved as some google alerts have no reference and we dont want those on our site as it is supposed to be family friendly.

I have edited usergroups, usergroup permissions, forum permissions, and everything else I could think of even putting the user into the moderated users group.

Anyone help by making it wait for approval?

[Brandon Sheley]

will this work on 3.6.2 ?

[Jafo232]

This is not necessary on 3.6.2. 3.6 has an advanced FEED feature which will do the exact same thing.

In case your wondering how, just go to news.google.com, enter the search terms that you want to be notified, click search, click RSS Feed. Enter that URL in the FEED feature of Vbulletin in the admin section.