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

[sunnylikbeckham]

A conflict was detected in the bitfields. You cannot continue with the installation of this product until this has been fixed. The conflicts found were:
Bitfield Collision: credits_cantearn = prefixrequired

[sunnylikbeckham]

sorry prob was on my other hack

[soundbarrierpro]

How and where do you setup a cron job?

[bleros]

Originally Posted by sarkar

@bleros:

Your host is running PHP Safe mode. Get it turned off.

For security reason must be ON SAFE Mode no OF

is nor my server in server must turn of safe mode no in host

[wtfsoccerdude]

I ran vbbot.php and after checking a few hundred links, I got this:

http://www.imageurlhost.com/images/6256jkziotqjz9lfm1wr.jpg

It's an error re-connecting to the DB. How to solve this?

[tommyturnage]

I found another bug with this Mod

If a megaupload link is "Temporarily Unavailable" it treats it as a DEAD link

This is a HUGE problem because megaupload tends to say that the link is "Temporarily Unavailable"

[skol]

Originally Posted by tommyturnage

I found another bug with this Mod

If a megaupload link is "Temporarily Unavailable" it treats it as a DEAD link

This is a HUGE problem because megaupload tends to say that the link is "Temporarily Unavailable"

And....

Nice One Guys..Stiill have a little problem with the pm...But bloody good work..well done..

[Dman91]

@wtfsoccerdude interesting... try this and report back
add

cc(FALSE, FALSE);

before

    $pmdm->save();

@soundbarrierpro - What is the control panel you use?
@bleros - Bot will timeout due to safe mode being on
@tommyturnage - try this code and report back

array("megaupload\.com/([a-z]{2}\/)?\?d=", "(Filename:)|(All download slots assigned to your country)|(The file you are trying to access is temporarily unavailable)", "@\/([a-z]{2}\/)@i", "/en/"),

@skol - What problem? The one that is mentioned already? and thank you.

[soundbarrierpro]

Hi Dman- when you say control panel....do you mean vb ACP?

Just in case, I'm being proactive
Admin Control Panel (vBulletin 3.7.2 Patch Level 1)

Thank you for your awesome work.

[tommyturnage]

Originally Posted by Dman91

@tommyturnage - try this code and report back

array("megaupload\.com/([a-z]{2}\/)?\?d=", "(Filename:)|(All download slots assigned to your country)|(The file you are trying to access is temporarily unavailable)", "@\/([a-z]{2}\/)@i", "/en/"),

Not to sound like a complete n00b but where do U put that code