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Set up a watcher for link rot

Open ephys opened this issue 2 years ago • 1 comments

At least some of the links referenced by the documentation will inevitably die.

We could use something like https://github.com/ephys/puppeteer-crawler to be notified when a link becomes a 404.

I still need to fix some issues with that script first.

We should also not check pages under /v2, /v3, /v4, and /v5 since these versions are not maintained anymore and it would skyrocket the time needed to check.

We probably can do this with a github action that runs once a week.

ephys avatar Mar 17 '22 19:03 ephys

Can we also do some analytics on what links people try to go to? Especially if people get a 404 so we can see what broken links float around on the internet

WikiRik avatar Mar 21 '22 12:03 WikiRik