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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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Old 07-20-2004, 10:18 PM
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Can anybody help me, please
have you executed the sql statements in step 5?
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Big sorry...

I'm a stupid idiot...

I forgot the "board"-path in the line...

THX for your answer...

C.
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Big sorry...
kein problem!
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Next question...

For the first time, the bot gets the news, but for the next time nothing happens...

Quote:
(News: 10m) (last: 02:30) (next: 02:49)
02.49 is 13 minutes ago...

C.
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Silly question, but is this hack going to be updated at some point to support RDF new feeds?
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Silly question, but is this hack going to be updated at some point to support RDF new feeds?
Not sure. It depends if the MagPieRSS parser supports it, and currently it does not.

Quote:
Next question...

For the first time, the bot gets the news, but for the next time nothing happens...

Quote:
(News: 10m) (last: 02:30) (next: 02:49)


02.49 is 13 minutes ago...

C.
Perhaps there is no new articles to grab from the RSS feed?

I've been testing this hack for over a month now with the original version, and it works fine. Make sure you have set things up correctly.

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Invalid SQL:
SELECT articlebot.userid,
articlebot.articlebotid, user.username
FROM articlebot
LEFT JOIN user
USING (userid)
WHERE articlebot.userid = 0

mysql error: Table 'help.articlebot' doesn't exist

mysql error number: 1146
What is this "help.articlebot" ?

That would generate an error.
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That error would be generated refering to dbname.tablename - it seems they haven't installed the Tables to the database
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Can someone tell me why I can't pull this feed?

http://satelliteguys.gottadeal.com/rss.xml

Everything looks ok to me, and my other feeds are working.
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Velocd, does this work when capturing info from an RDF file?
I used the other RSS feed on my site and wanted to capture data from the website - www.uo.com, but they don't have RSS, so I setup a script to capture news from the site and save it as an RSS feed file, a rdf file, but it didn't work with the other RSS mod....
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Anyone got a demo of this in action?
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