# Forum Link Checker

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-link-checker/122679>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [July 11, 2019, 5:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-link-checker/122679 "2019-07-11T17:11:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![nibl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nibl/32/119684_2.png) [@nibl](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nibl)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 7:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-link-checker/122679/3 "2019-07-12T07:29:29Z")

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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.

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