Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Linkchecker Bot

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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.

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Installation How-To
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1. Upload bot.php to your root folder where your VB installation is
2. Change your mysql in bot.php

$config['Database']['dbname'] = 'CHANGE DBNAME';
$config['MasterServer']['username'] = 'CHANGE DBUSER';
$config['MasterServer']['password'] = 'CHANGE PASSWD';
$config['Database']['tableprefix'] = 'CHANGE PREFIX';

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. Add New Scheduled TaskYou
5. have just installed the Link Checker bot.
6. If you had older version of the bot, delete bot.php (or the folder) and replace it by new one.

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Setting up and configuring your 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 Web4xs 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.

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Security
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1. For security reasons, it is highly recommended you rename your bot to something else for instance yourname.php

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Running your Link Checker Bot
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1. You can only run the bot by setting up a Scheduled Task on Vbulletin =========================
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=20 <--- The number at the end of the URL
will be the forum ID. In this example
it is 20.

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=1 <--- The number at the end of the URL will be
the user ID. In this example the user ID
is 1.

Linkchecker Bot is based on the old mod VB Linkchecker..
Web4xs Linkchecker Bot will be update always to new versions.

[LordVader]

Woo Hoo

Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou

Did i say Thanks ... ? ... lol

It seems to work great on my 3.84 installation exept for one silly little problem.

I set it up to run a cron job every 59:mins but it never seems to run, but if i manually click the Run Now button it looks through the forums i listed & sends anything it finds to the recycle bin.

As i said it's no biggie as it works fine when i call it up manually.

One thing that i really want to change is the text below.

(( Links checked on 24/08/09 by link checker bot ))
Please could you tell me where i edit that text

Again i thank you for sharing the first ever link checker i have ever managed to install & get working, and believe me i have tried a few.

Nominated For M.O.T.M

Will.

[LordVader]

Ohh

And one other thing, you said you would be working on updating this so i was wondering if there would be any chance you could add http://hotfile.com/ to the list of checkable links.

Thanks

Will.

[LordVader]

Ooops spoke to soon

Oh the joys of mysql ... argh, i hate mysql

MySQL Error : MySQL server has gone away
Error Number : 2006
Request Date : Monday, August 24th 2009 @ 12:43:19 PM
Error Date : Monday, August 24th 2009 @ 12:46:29 PM
Script : http://www.*********.com/forum/admin...cron&cronid=25
Referrer : http://www.*********.com/forum/admin....php?do=modify
IP Address : **.**.**.**
Username : Lord-Vader
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

Anyone got any clues on how to fix this ?

Will.

[webgroup]

Originally Posted by dancue

It seems that we will never get a link checker bot that works...

I have someone willing to make one for me, but the price is really high. Maybe if we put some money together we can get this made for us. Anyone interested can pm me. I'll give you the details.

Yes, I think this is the best option

[elenh]

how do i change the options from the defaults (removing the dead links) to removing the active links?

I want to clear one of my sections..

thanks again!

[elenh]

This is the second link checker bot who is posted here and the both author's give's not support and they last activity of the coder was before 2 months.
You start to make something good for the community ,you make us happy and at the end the results is a dead topic..
Why you release something where you can not give support and you let us posting and posting without answers.
Call a moderator to delete this topic if you will not spend your time again here.
In the begin of the topic the topic says that is supported but this is lie..

CLICKED UNISTALLED & CLEAR NOMINATION

Thank you.

[dancue]

I've talked to someone already and paid for the product to be made. He has a lite version being released soon and a pro version available through his website.

Once I've tested the products out they will be released to the public. So far so good.

[Kangaroo666]

@ dancue, any updates on the link checker product m8?

[stamos2003]

this is the exactly the same bot like here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=190407
just you put your name on it, are you kidding?

[giotis9]

I installed it and it messed up all my posts!!!!!!! All the letters except english turned up like ????????. Its a disaster!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!