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

[andrewtr89]

Originally Posted by sarkar

Permission denied is supposedly you don't have fopen permissions or u haven't chmodded the folder where the bot is to write in there. Trying chmodding the folder to 777 (If after chmodding to 777 u get an Internal Server Error, chmod the same folder to 755 since mod_security is installed on the server) and then try again.

Warning: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/isocube1/public_html/forum/vbbot.php on line 124

Warning: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/isocube1/public_html/forum/vbbot.php on line 129
Using Method where it seems that all topics have been checked.

Warning: mysql_fetch_assoc(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/isocube1/public_html/forum/vbbot.php on line 147

I think were getting some where

[digitalnorte]

I like to mantain the thread in the same place (original forum).
In other words, I don?t like the post move to trash, only receive the PM.

The line:

$trash = 'Enter forum ID here'; //Forum id of trash

Can be as original ?
To not be moved to trash

Thanks !

[Distance]

Hello,

I am getting the error:


Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /home/***/public_html/upgrid/vbbot.php on line 36


Note: When submitting the sql query I got the following error:

Error

SQL query:

ALTER TABLE `thread` ADD `time_check` INT( 10 ) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0' AFTER `taglist` ;

MySQL said: Documentation
#1054 - Unknown column 'taglist' in 'thread'

Any ideas?

Thanks

[Dman91]

@digitalnorte - Make $perd more than 100
@andrewtr89 - Pm bot file
@Distance - ALTER TABLE `thread` ADD `time_check` INT( 10 ) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0' - run that and PM bot file

[zero5854]

Thanks for this mod! BUT I Have a question. Is there a way for the bot to have a small message below the links to say it the links are good or not? IE good links bots message is green...bad links message is red?

Thanks

[Dman91]

Optional feature in next version

[digitalnorte]

Originally Posted by Dman91

@digitalnorte - Make $perd more than 100

Dman, Thanks so much !
Trying with $perd = 101

With $perd variable more grat than 100 I will receive only the PM.

TKS Again, INSTALLED !
:up:

[howcome]

i made a folder and chmodded it to 777 and put the vbbot.php in it and get this

Warning: require_once(includes/config.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home2/name/public_html/mysiteurl/forums/bot/vbbot.php on line 28

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'includes/config.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home2/name/public_html/mysiteurl/forums/bot/vbbot.php on line 28

i fixed that issue how do you add multiple forums id to be checked i tried i get other errors

Warning: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home2/name/public_html/mysiteurl/forums/bot/vbbot.php on line 124

Warning: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home2/name/public_html/mysiteurl/forums/bot/vbbot.php on line 129
Using Method where it seems that all topics have been checked.

Warning: mysql_fetch_assoc(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home2/name/public_html/mysiteurl/forums/bot/vbbot.php on line 147

[aranthorn]

Originally Posted by JetHaCkR

WHat do i run in phpmyadmin to uninstall this

ALTER TABLE `thread` DROP COLUMN `time_check`;

ALTER TABLE `thread` DROP COLUMN `ignore_check`;

Add your prefix as needed. I couldn't get this hack to work properly so I removed it.

My problem was that I had a lot of forums (about a dozen) I wanted checked and anytime I added them all I got was a 500 error.

[Dman91]

howcome, PM me bot file