Forum Link Checker

[nibl (Marcus)]

Does anyone know of a link checker that would work with the forum? There are a bunch of external links which have been moved. And others need to be deleted.

[tshenry (Taylor)]

I’m not 100% clear on what you are looking for, but if you know what links need to be replaced or deleted, you should be able to use:

Replace a string in all posts

Want to replace a string in all the posts? Let’s do it! Access your site First connect to your Droplet via SSH, and enter the Docker container for your Discourse instances: cd /var/discourse ./launcher enter app WARNING We strongly recommend you take a full backup before proceeding, and make sure your string replacement is specific enough to affect only the places you want it to. If this string replacement goes wrong, every post on your site will look broken! Remap all posts co…

[nibl (Marcus)]

I mean the kind of link checker that crawls an entire site looking for broken links. Would that work on a forum? I don’t want to just try it out in case it disrupts usage. I would only want to run it during a maintenance period.

Thanks for the string replacement article. That might come in handy some other time.

[simon]

I haven’t tried it, but what you are asking for sounds similar to https://github.com/graydenshand/discourse_link_checker.

@Grayden_Shand might have some information about using it.