On Tue, Aug 25, 2026 at 06:49:37PM +0200, Quentin Schulz wrote: > Saw a dead link and made the mistake of running `make linkcheckdocs`. > Now I'm knee-deep in it and cannot ignore all the dead and redirected > links. A day later, I've had enough so this is what I managed to fix in > that time. There are many URLs still redirecting (could be fine, but > needs to be individually checked as some big companies have a tendencies > to redirect to generic pages instead of issuing 404s...) or returning > 4xx. The issue is that those 4xx also need to be individually checked > because since the AIpocalypse has started many websites now have web > crawler protection in place and linkcheck will trigger those and be > denied access (or be heavily rate limited). > > Please be mindful and only run this script once, save its output and > work on fixing individual errors without rerunning the script, otherwise > we would only participate in hammering websites even more (linkcheck > runs multiple workers in parallel and retries when rate-limited). > > Note that linkcheck doesn't check for links in code-blocks so our > instructions may point at dead links also. > > At an attempt to avoid tens of people running linkcheck at the same > time, here's the output sorted and filtered on !ok status:
Thanks for doing this, it is helpful and appreciated. -- Tom
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