Notify user of a broken URL in their Topic

[Tris20 (Tristan)]

Thanks for providing these. I had a search earlier but must have been using goofy search terms.

This topic looked most interesting.

How Check and Fix Broken Links?

Is there any possible way to identify broken links and fix it at the same time?

In particular your own proposal:

@Canapin

The first solution that comes to my mind would be a rail script that iterates through post contents, find links, requests them, checks the status code and does whatever you need. Delete them, replace them (such actions would require a rebake), log them…

I’m curious if there is already an internal table of urls. This seems to suggest their might be:

Find and fix broken links

Thinking of the topic_links table? https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/app/models/topic_link.rb