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

[d0nbiz]

I get the following error when attempting to run vbbot.php

Warning: fopen(botruns.txt) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/MYUSERNAME/public_html/forum/vbbot.php on line 25

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/MYUSERNAME/public_html/forum/vbbot.php on line 26
Using Method where it seems that all topics have been checked.

Warning: unlink(botruns.txt) [function.unlink]: No such file or directory in /home/MYUSERNAME/public_html/forum/vbbot.php on line 294

[Dman91]

@kud0gfx - Well, the mysql is timing out... so you can wait for next version or ask your server admin to increase mysql timeout
@vietdjclub - I told you 100 times, to PM me to release and i would give you appropriate credits, if you dont agree to that let me know and i will be making acp on my own.
@d0nbiz - Read the FAQ at MaxWCoders

[d0nbiz]

I fixed the first error by adding botruns.txt

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Now I'm getting this error when I try to run it:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '=' in /home/MYUSERNAME/public_html/forum/vbbot.php on line 35

[kud0gfx]

Originally Posted by Dman91

@kud0gfx - Well, the mysql is timing out... so you can wait for next version or ask your server admin to increase mysql timeout

Thx Dman, i will ask to my server admin, and if he can't ill wiat for next version

Thanks for sharing this great mod!

[pierians]

I have a suggestion to make for the next version...

When you check a thread for 2nd/3rd/4th etc time it edits again the post adding the new date, but it also keeps the edit from previous check.

For example:

Links Checked On: 10/09/08 By Link Checker Bot


Links Checked On: 15/09/08 By Link Checker Bot

So my suggestion is that the bot overwright the previous message instead of adding a new one.

[rmxs]

Correct..

After 2 years maybe our boards have 100 links

[pnosko31]

Originally Posted by pierians

I have a suggestion to make for the next version...

When you check a thread for 2nd/3rd/4th etc time it edits again the post adding the new date, but it also keeps the edit from previous check.

For example:


So my suggestion is that the bot overwright the previous message instead of adding a new one.

actually it shouldn't unless you have modified some of the text. It overwrites the text when I use it.

[pnosko31]

Originally Posted by vietdjclub

read here
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=118

if your not going to share then stop posting it

[Dman91]

pierians this should already be replaced if the board is not replacing you have modified the line that bot posts and forgot to edit it in preg_replace
d0nbiz - PM me bot.php file
Here is something for your reference

PHP Code:

$pa = '
[b]Links checked on ' . date('d/m/y'). ' at '. date('H:i') . ' by RapidW Bot[/b]'; //This will append this at the end of the checked post 


Second Edit

$ppa = '<br /> <b>Links checked on ' . date('d/m/y'). ' at '. date('H:i') . ' by RapidW Bot</b>'; //VB uses a caching technique, this will append it to end of parsed post. This is HTML!

Third Edit (Needs to match with $pa and escaping

$post = preg_replace("/\[b\]Links checked on(.+)by RapidW Bot\[\/b\]/" , "" , $post); //Replace if it is already checked by LC bot

Fourth Edit (Needs to match with $ppa and escaping)

$postparsed = preg_replace("/\<br \/\> \<b\>Links checked on(.+)by RapidW Bot\<\/b\>/" , "" , $postparsed);

Note : (.+) Will match anything

[Skavenger]

I have tested this in localhost and worked fine, but when I run the script in my live site the page keeps loading and nothing happen. How can I fix this?

Thanks