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Identify broken links--Software?
Our training team has 100s of courses we have created. Most of them contain internal and external web links. We would like to purchase a tool that can scan our .story files to identify any broken lin...
Hi Victoria,
I have found someone who is using The free link checker for Mac and Macbook : Integrity (peacockmedia.software). I am going to pursue having my IT team write a python script to address this issue.
To me that sounds like:
- Iterate the entire folder where holds all courses
- Iterate every story.html, or other files needed, in all sub-folders and return with all hyperlinks from <data-url> tags, or other tags include one
- Run the entire link bulk with a link checker. Might be slightly tricky because by automation, it is easy to recognize a 404, but it may be harder to recognize when the link works, but the content I want is not there now.
Talk to an indy Python programmer if you don't have a in-house one. They might have tools to develop an one-stop shop to all requirements above.
