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Check the links in technical documentation
Documentation links to specifications, repositories and other docs, and those move more often than the prose does. Retries are limited so a slow server is not hammered, and a timeout is reported as a timeout rather than as a 404.
Broken Link Checker - Dead Links, 404 Checker, Bulk URL Statusneverempty/link-checker
URL
State
Status
Reason
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Input
Pages to read links from
url:https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status
Links to check directly
Check links to the same site:true
Check links to other sites:true
Maximum links to check:60
Links checked at once:5
Requests at once to the same server:2
Respect robots.txt when reading the pages:true
Timeout per request (seconds):20
Retries on temporary failures:3
Output fields
URL
State
Status
Reason
Naive check would call this broken
Method used
HEAD rejected with
Redirects
Final URL
Same site
Elapsed (ms)
Linked from
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