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Bots Install Script

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Modification name: Bots Install Script
Author: T50
Modification description: This mod will add 100+ bots automatically to your forum
Modification version: 1.0.0
Tested on phpBB version: 3.0.2

Download file: BotsMod Install.zip
File size: 32.09 KiB

Modification overview page: View

The phpBB Team is not responsible nor required to provide support for this modification. By installing this MOD, you acknowledge that the phpBB Support Team or phpBB Extension Customisations Team may not be able to provide support.

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Modification validated/released

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First let me just say this, this mod DOES NOT make bots visit your forum, this mod onlys adds about 100 bots to your current list of bots, so if they visit your forum they will get the proper permissions.

with that said, now for your questions, generally bots index your site, and some other things bots do,
they are good to have installed if your getting a bunch of bot like visits, this mod is to help those that don't have time to track down alot of bots to add individually in the ACP, some boards want guests to be able to see certain parts of their forum that they don't wants bots to be able to and vice-versa if the bot isn't added to your bot list it will be a guest and will give them the wrong permissions
∞House wrote:The Bots Group is one of the Core Groups in phpBB3. It cannot be deleted because it was hard-coded into the software. On top of that, this particular group is there for a very specific purpose: the proper handling of webcrawler/spider/bots' sessions. So when these visitors (like Googlebot) do visit your forum, they will be recognized by their User Agent. - A user-agent is not something in phpBB, but rather a string provided to the webserver by the crawler/bot, or even the web browser that you're using at the moment. (My personal user-agent is "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1 BETA!".)

What this MOD does is add a list of user-agents which are known to be used by these bots. So when they visit, they are simply identified and are handled as per the permissions set for the Bot Group. By default, there are no security issues what so ever with this. But you can theoretically give them more access to your board then you would normally want to under any foreseeable circumstance. - Such is with the Guest Group. You could give Guests ACP rights, for example. (Unless this has been denied at the file-level. I haven't personally tried, though it's a good example.)
∞House wrote:You know on the "Manage bots" page(, when you click the "Spiders/Robots" link), how you can scroll down the list and there's a button that says "Add bot"? Well, this is just a script that Adds about 100 currently known robots/webcrawlers to that list. So really, it just saves you the time and hassle of adding them. :)
That said, (and I'm only emphasizing this for everyone else, Peter77sx ;) ) it does not make these bots/crawlers visit your website. It only means that they'll be properly listed and handled by phpBB when they do find your site. - And if/when they do (depending solely on whether or not your website gets enough traffic, naturally), then yes, they will surely be listed in the Who's-Online box/etc. :mrgreen:
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Woo Hoo! :D
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Thanks, working.
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Tim, at least one of those bots are listed twice in the array. :twisted:

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'Fast PartnerSite'            => array('Fast PartnerSite Crawler', ''), 
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∞House wrote:Tim, at least one of those bots are listed twice in the array. :twisted:

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'Fast PartnerSite'            => array('Fast PartnerSite Crawler', ''), 
hmm I missed that one, will get it in next version
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General Error
SQL ERROR [ mysql4 ]

Duplicate entry 'java [bad bot]' for key 2 [1062]

SQL

INSERT INTO phpbb_users (username, username_clean, user_password, user_pass_convert, user_email, user_email_hash, group_id, user_type, user_permissions, user_arcade_permissions, user_timezone, user_dateformat, user_lang, user_style, user_actkey, user_ip, user_regdate, user_passchg, user_options, user_inactive_reason, user_inactive_time, user_lastmark, user_lastvisit, user_lastpost_time, user_lastpage, user_posts, user_reputation, user_dst, user_colour, user_occ, user_interests, user_avatar, user_avatar_type, user_avatar_width, user_avatar_height, user_new_privmsg, user_unread_privmsg, user_last_privmsg, user_message_rules, user_full_folder, user_emailtime, user_notify, user_notify_pm, user_notify_type, user_allow_pm, user_allow_viewonline, user_allow_viewemail, user_allow_massemail, user_sig, user_sig_bbcode_uid, user_sig_bbcode_bitfield, user_form_salt) VALUES ('Java [Bad bot]', 'java [bad bot]', '', 0, '', '00', 6, 2, '', '', 0, 'D M d, Y g:i a', 'en', 1, '', '', 1221771853, 1221771853, 895, 0, 0, 1221771853, 0, 0, '', 0, 5, 0, '9E8DA7', '', '', '', 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -3, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, '', '', '', '36364aec869878b6')

BACKTRACE

FILE: includes/db/mysql.php
LINE: 158
CALL: dbal->sql_error()

FILE: includes/functions_user.php
LINE: 254
CALL: dbal_mysql->sql_query()

FILE: bots.php
LINE: 191
CALL: user_add()

FILE: bots.php
LINE: 207
CALL: add_bots2()
i get this error when i go to mydomain.com/bots.php after copying teh files
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I do believe I mentioned in the author notes on the XML that it will general error out if you have one of the bots already on your board.
just put // in front of the line that has that bot. I think that is the first one on the list.
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Just out of pure curiousity and newbieness.. What would 100 bots do on your forum? What good are they?
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megalomania wrote:Just out of pure curiousity and newbieness.. What would 100 bots do on your forum? What good are they?
Thanks :)
First let me just say this, this mod DOES NOT make bots visit your forum, this mod onlys adds about 100 bots to your current list of bots, so if they visit your forum they will get the proper permissions.

with that said, now for your questions, generally bots index your site, and some other things bots do,
they are good to have installed if your getting a bunch of bot like visits, this mod is to help those that don't have time to track down alot of bots to add individually in the ACP, some boards want guests to be able to see certain parts of their forum that they don't wants bots to be able to and vice-versa if the bot isn't added to your bot list it will be a guest and will give them the wrong permissions
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Thank you, now I know! :D
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nice mod works fine

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Fantastic, thank you very much

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