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

[fordsho]

Originally Posted by Dman91

Ask your administrator to install cURL in PHP.

Thanks Dman rebuilding apache now.

[fordsho]

OK question what is the best way to set the bot to run every 24hrs.

Im guessing Scheduled Task Manager and set one to run every 24hrs then one to delete every 23hrs sound good?

[iPodHacking.com]

Originally Posted by rmxs

Yes work on code..

If you get this message there is the log file in the folder try this /bot.php?deletefile

and then run the bot again

OK thanks

[iPodHacking.com]

Also. Do i have to run the script manually to make it check the links. Or does it do it by its self?

[f4vn]

What happen if my board's thousands of threads and ~10 links in each thread ... when you run this bot may be it become a DDoS tool

[iPodHacking.com]

Hey when i run the vbbot.php the first time i get this error"Warning: require_once(/includes/config.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/mysite/public_html/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 /home/mysite/public_html/bot/vbbot.php on line 28"

And if i press refresh it says :Bot is running.
But it hasn't checked any links after running for 3 hours. So i think there might be an error

[FRANKTHETANK 2]

I keep getting this error when I run my sql queries.

Error

SQL query:

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

MySQL said: Documentation
#1060 - Duplicate column name 'time_check'

Any Idea's

[edermix]

Thank you friends, succeed, but still left me some doubts:

-- Active status active on the links that are inactive, the right not appear deria Bouncing?

-- The length of time of MySQL is very short: 15 seconds, changed here:

echo 'Now script will pause for 15 seconds';
Sleep (15);

For 50 (sleep) but did not work, I have to be deleting this file and restarting always, to finish?

Thank you!

[sarkar]

Originally Posted by iPodHacking.com

Hey when i run the vbbot.php the first time i get this error"Warning: require_once(/includes/config.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/mysite/public_html/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 /home/mysite/public_html/bot/vbbot.php on line 28"

And if i press refresh it says :Bot is running.
But it hasn't checked any links after running for 3 hours. So i think there might be an error

If its in the directory called exp use ./includes/config.php

Originally Posted by FRANKTHETANK 2

I keep getting this error when I run my sql queries.

Error

SQL query:

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

MySQL said: Documentation
#1060 - Duplicate column name 'time_check'

Any Idea's

U have to do it once.

[sarkar]

Originally Posted by iPodHacking.com

Also. Do i have to run the script manually to make it check the links. Or does it do it by its self?

You can set up a cron and make it run every xx hours or minutes

Originally Posted by fordsho

OK question what is the best way to set the bot to run every 24hrs.

Im guessing Scheduled Task Manager and set one to run every 24hrs then one to delete every 23hrs sound good?

Use cron. Its ur call. It depends on ur board size and no of threads and posts to check. Our next version would have the product installer and so I think u can use the vB Task Manager then.

Originally Posted by f4vn

What happen if my board's thousands of threads and ~10 links in each thread ... when you run this bot may be it become a DDoS tool

Password protect the directory where the bot lies.. somewhere likke inside admincp a directory called secretstuff and password protect it, so that no one else can misuse it.