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Version: 1.00, by Velocd Velocd is offline
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Article Bot
by velocd


Article Bot is a script that allows you to assign a user account (preferably an exclusive one) to an article bot that will post RSS feeds in select forums at designated intervals. These articles are derived from RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds.

RSS files are assigned to article bots, as well to individual forums, which in turn directs what, when and where your article bot will post.

Features
  • Works with RSS versions: 0.9x, 2.0, 1.0, and Atom 0.3
  • AdminCP interface for adding/modifying/deleting article bots & rss feeds
  • Designate intervals (in minutes) to each RSS feed for when your article bot will post them.
  • Requires only 1 file edit (admincp/index.php), allowing ease of upgrading your vBulletin
    without having to remodify files.
  • Easy to install. Works best in conjunction with crontab (contab help is inside install.html)

News
  • 7/25/04 - Version 1.1 Released
    • Bug Fixes
      • Replaced htmlspecialchars() with htmlentities() in articlebot.php to fully convert special entities from descriptions.
      • Added trim() to thread titles, to prevent double threads from being posted that are merely off by whitespace.
      • New table articlebot_rss_cache for storing a copy of article bot threads, for quicker checking of doubles when posting new threads.
      • Threads are checked in articlebot_rss_cache, so you can permanently remove them from the thread table (you don't have to "soft delete") without worrying about the bot replicating them.
      • Other minor bugs.
    • Features
      • New installer/upgraders for doing the SQL part automatically.
      • Added "label" field to add/modify RSS interface, that allows you to tag a label, e.g. [yahoo], to the beginning of threads, unique to each RSS feed. This might help for better distinction of RSS feeds.
      • Added an option to toggle on/off of building similar threads per RSS feed. Some RSS feeds could hault the script if the building of similar thread results for that feed takes too long (maybe the article thread title is too vague, and matches a lot of results--my guess is it's only a problem on large forums).
      • Added an option to toggle on/off skipping of articles that don't contain descriptions.
      • Regular expression search and replace for article titles and descriptions. This grants you much flexability to filter out things you don't want in your titles or descriptions (given you have some regex experience, I will try to post some patterns in due time.. feel free to add yours )
  • 7/11/04 - Version 1.0 Released

Upgrading
  • To upgrade, reupload the new PHP and MagpieRSS parser files to their places on your server. Upload upgrade_vx-x (replace the x's with the version you are upgrading to) to /path/to/forums/admincp/, and then execute that script.

Files
  • 3 screenshots attached
  • articlebot_v1.zip
    • install.html, logo.gif
    • articlebot_admin.php
    • articlebot/
      • rss_cache.inc
      • rss_fetch.inc
      • rss_parse.inc
      • rss_utils.inc
      • extlib/
        • Snoopy.class.inc

RSS Feeds

There are several in the install.html, but if you're looking for more than you could ever want, check out NewsIsFree's directory:

http://www.newsisfree.com/sources/bycat/


Remember to click install if you use this hack.

Also be sure to read through the what you haven't of the thread before asking a question, for it may have been answered.

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  • This modification may not be copied, reproduced or published elsewhere without author's permission.

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  #322  
Old 09-16-2004, 12:13 AM
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maybe the template name has a space somewhere
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maybe the template name has a space somewhere
nope, no spaces.
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Installed. Very nice.

But.

How can I make it so articlebot's post are NOT immediately posted, but queued for moderation? Is this a small change to an insert query?

Nevermind, I figured it out. Here's what I did.

in articlebot.php

Find:
Code:
                /* +---------------------------------+
                   | Query: insert thread            |
                   +---------------------------------+ */
AFTER it, add:

Code:
                // Change to make new threads moderated
                $visible = 0;
Find:
Code:
                         '".addslashes($articlebot['username']) . "', ".TIMENOW.", $articlebot[iconid], 1, 0,
REPLACE with:

Code:
                         '".addslashes($articlebot['username']) . "', ".TIMENOW.", $articlebot[iconid], $visible, 0,
Find:
Code:
                $post_id = $DB_site->insert_id();
AFTER it, add:
Code:
                /* +------------------------------------+
                   | Query: set thread to be moderated  |
                   +------------------------------------+ */

                if (!$visible) {
                $DB_site->query("
                        INSERT INTO ".TABLE_PREFIX."moderation
                        (threadid, postid)
                        VALUES
                        ($thread_id, $post_id)
                        ");
                }
That's it. Set the $visible value to 0 to make the articlebot posts moderated. Set it to 1 for the default behavior. Hope that helps someone. I'm not sure if you need to set the post.visible value or not?

Also, what'd I'd really like is if the bot would actually check the permissions of its user in the forum it is posting to and set whether the post should be moderated or not. Actually, it'd probably just be better if you could toggle the "visible" on and off in the articlebot CP.

"Moderating" feeds this ways allows your moderators to control the flow of the feed. Many articles in a feed will be irrelevant or duplications, this way, there's still a human filter on it when necessary.
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<< taps fingers and has no idea why rss2 isnt being shown properly.....

i would be amazed if anyone with this installed can show this rss2 feed on their posts and include post text within content:encoded tags

try it:
http://www.ring4tonez.com/sellersfor....php?type=rss2

u will get the post title and thats about it

if you do, please post a link or PM me so i can see for myself :-)
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<snip>
"Moderating" feeds this ways allows your moderators to control the flow of the feed. Many articles in a feed will be irrelevant or duplications, this way, there's still a human filter on it when necessary.
That's why I took the advice of one of the VB guys and changed my incoming feeds to all go to one particular forum; that way anybody with access to the forum can modify/move the new posts as needed.
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This is awesome! I have been looking for something like this.

Thanks!
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I've been using the new RSS modified FEED hack. The problem with this is that it couldn't accept my source name, of 250 characters. Would the article bot accept this?
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That's why I took the advice of one of the VB guys and changed my incoming feeds to all go to one particular forum; that way anybody with access to the forum can modify/move the new posts as needed.
Hmm. That could be a better idea depending on how you want your moderators to handle it. Wish I thought of that.
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Quote:
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<< taps fingers and has no idea why rss2 isnt being shown properly.....

i would be amazed if anyone with this installed can show this rss2 feed on their posts and include post text within content:encoded tags

try it:
http://www.ring4tonez.com/sellersfor....php?type=rss2

u will get the post title and thats about it

if you do, please post a link or PM me so i can see for myself :-)
<< must be invisible.....thats twice now ive been passed by.....
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<< must be invisible.....thats twice now ive been passed by.....
Does http://www.ring4tonez.com/sellersfo...l.php?type=rss work? (note the missing '2' from the end)
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