MomDad

MomDad

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MomDad commented on a Snippet, XBOX360 ABGX Search Engine  -  Nov 29, 2008
Hi essebi,

It's a nice script, however since you're parsing the actual pages this consumes quite a bit of bandwidth. Lately, I've begun to block IPs which I notice are using more bw than normal -- as it's usually an indication of a script such as this being used.

Since it's an IRC script (so you're obviously already on IRC when using it), might I suggest an alternate method that messages the bot directly? It'll be much quicker, direct, and will consume a lot less bw (and won't be prone to being IP-blocked).

Many of the commands for GoogleBot and BinaryBot can be done via msg and with full or abbreviations for the channel names. A couple examples being:

.msg BinaryBot -search x360 yoursearchkeywords
.msg GoogleBot -gamesearch x360 yoursearchkeywords

"-search" searches the requests/filling/posted
"-gamesearch" searches the game database

Channel abbreviations are:

x360 == #alt.binaries.games.xbox360
abgx == #alt.binaries.games.xbox
abd == #alt.binaries.dreamcast
absp == #alt.binaries.sony.psp
abgn == #alt.binaries.games.nintendods
abgw == #alt.binaries.games.wii
abcp == #alt.binaries.console.ps3

Regards,

MomDad
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