There are many dead link checkers on the web. I wanted one that focused specifically on 88x31 button links. I also wanted one that didn’t make me login, or tracked me, or kept a record of anything I checked.
So, I built it. Maybe y’all can find some use in it as well: deadbuttons
Note: While it doesn’t explicitly track or save any URLs, it is possible that the server logs would have URLs in them.
I noticed that the machine was running out of memory. I’ve made some changes and added some more memory to the machine.
Sorry if you tried it and ran into issues.
This is an interesting one. W3 has a CloudFlare bot protection captcha in front of that URL. The link checker can’t pass it so they return a 403. I’m not sure there’s much I can (or should) do about that since the bot protection is working as it should.
If you’d like to be able to test CF-gated URLs, you can use flaresolverr, although it’ll give you harder challenges (eating up your CPU resources) if you make a lot of requests.
Thanks for the tip. I’m trying to keep this thing as lean as I can on the resources side. That does not look lean at all :)
I’ll take a look at maybe detecting the CF gate and giving the user a better message like “I can’t yet check URLs behind CloudFlare protection” or something.
It is a good edge case to either keep in mind or potentially mitigate.
