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.

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: [image] Replace a string in all posts Self-Hosting bookmark This guide explains how to replace a string in all posts within a …

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 s…

I haven’t tried it, but what you are asking for sounds similar to GitHub - graydenshand/discourse_link_checker: A program to find broken links in Discourse · GitHub . @Grayden_Shand might have some information about using it.

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tshenry (Taylor) July 12, 2019, 1:08am 2

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:

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How Check and Fix Broken Links? Support	13	2463	June 1, 2023
Broken Link Checking in Discourse Support	1	709	February 17, 2021
Links broken after move Self-hosting	10	1727	December 15, 2019

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