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There any perl scripts that would automatically post a reply on an IPB when it approaches a set thre

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2006-08-10 13:16:47, Category: Programming & Design
I'm always on an Invision Power Board v2.0.4 every day that holds (Post-Count Contests.) An example would be; The 250th post on this thread wins a New 120g harddrive for free. Anyways, it seems like a really easy script, a program that would first index the particular loaded Power Board thread, Keep refreshing it every 5-10 seconds until the total post count is within 5 posts from the "set post count", and when the program reads it's within 5, it then automaticly posts a "set amount of posts" as quick as possible. I'd love to have the source code or program. If you have any answers... I'd love to know if you could do this programming. Sounds like a simple perl script to me.

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  1. Jody

    On 2006-08-10 14:14:19


    You'd have to scrape the page to find the post count for that thread, which won't be incredibly reliable, but it would work. You might could get away with this for a short period of time, but when they see 17000 hits in one day from a single IP address, they are going to get you. Especially if it works one time and then they can link your IP address to your shipping address (from when they sent you the free hard drive). I won't write it for you, but if you want to write it some useful PHP functions (perl has similar functions) will be: file_get_contents() strip_tags() explode() substr() strpos() Have fun, but ye be warned!