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.
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The discussion revolves around finding a link checker for a forum to identify broken external links. nibl is looking for a tool that can crawl the entire site to find broken links, preferably during a maintenance period to avoid disruptions. tshenry suggests using a string replacement method for known changes, referencing a guide on replacing strings in posts. nibl clarifies the need for a crawling tool rather than manual edits. simon points to a potential solution, the discourse_link_checker, and suggests Grayden_Shand may have relevant information.
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:
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.
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.