ci: add live URL audit (weekly cron) + grandfather current broken URLs#11
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Add .url_check_allowlist.txt at repo root containing the 9 broken URLs
the audit currently flags in HowToLens — mostly external paywalled / dead
links and a few internal docs renames that need editorial fixes. The
weekly cron job will only fail when a NEW broken URL appears that isn't
in this file.
Update .github/workflows/url_check.yml:
- keep the existing offline regex guard (runs on every PR + push, now
with ~15 additional bad patterns thanks to the matching PyAutoBuild
extension)
- add a url_check_live job that runs on schedule (Mon 04:00 UTC) and
workflow_dispatch. On non-zero exit it opens or comments on a
[url-check] New broken URLs detected tracking issue.
- on a clean run, auto-closes any prior open [url-check] issue.
Tool: PyAutoLabs/PyAutoBuild#87 (paired PR — must merge first for the
extended regex patterns and the new live tool to be available).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Add the live URL-audit CI infrastructure described in PyAutoLabs/PyAutoBuild#87 to HowToLens.
.url_check_allowlist.txtat repo root — 9 URLs the audit currently flags as broken in this repo. Mostly external paywalled / dead links and internal docs renames. Each is grouped by category with the originating file:line as an inline comment..github/workflows/url_check.yml— extended:hhttps://, staleJammy2211/refs, etc.schedule(Monday 04:00 UTC) andworkflow_dispatch. Validates every URL in the repo's docs against the allowlist. On new breakage, opens or appends to a tracking issue titled[url-check] New broken URLs detected. On a clean run, automatically closes any prior open tracking issue.No code changes. Doc / CI-only.
Test plan
url_check_live.sh HowToLensexits 0 against the current allowlist (post-merge cron run will be a no-op until something new breaks)Related