Use awesome_bot to validate links

[erictleung]

What do you think about adding a Travis CI script for awesome_bot to validate links on the page in case some go old and stop working?

Source: https://github.com/dkhamsing/awesome_bot

You just need to make a .travis.yml file with the following:

language: ruby
rvm: 2.2
before_script: gem install awesome_bot
script: awesome_bot README.md
notifications:
  email: false

Here are some other options you can use while checking links

Usage: awesome_bot [file or files]
       awesome_bot [options]
    -f, --files [files]              Comma separated files to check
    -a, --allow [errors]             Status code errors to allow
        --allow-dupe                 Duplicate URLs are allowed
        --allow-ssl                  SSL errors are allowed
        --allow-redirect             Redirected URLs are allowed
        --allow-timeout              URLs that time out are allowed
    -t, --set-timeout [seconds]      Set connection timeout
    -w, --white-list [urls]          Comma separated URLs to white list

[danielecook]

Better late than never...this has been added. I allow for duplicates and redirects.

[erictleung]

@danielecook nice 😄

It looks like that a few of the links have some issues.

1. GATK Queue's link is broken and should be https://gatkforums.broadinstitute.org/gatk/discussion/1288/howto-run-queue-for-the-first-time
2. SAMstat link should be replaced with https://github.com/TimoLassmann/samstat
3. vcftools with https://github.com/vcftools/vcftools
4. snpeff with https://github.com/pcingola/SnpEff

I can make those changes now.

[erictleung]

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