Find Dead Links

This is a quick tool to find dead links in .md files in a git repo

It requires Python3.7

Usage

1. Clone this repo

$ git clone https://github.com/markwinter/find-dead-links.git
$ cd find-dead-links

2. Install the required python modules

$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

3. Edit the MD_EXTENSION if necessary (Default: .md)

4. Run the script with path to your git repo

$ python3 find_dead_links.py ../path/to/repo
[*] Finding all .md pages
	[*] Found 185 pages
[*] Finding all links in pages
	[*] Found 1309 links
[*] Trying links
Page: /README.md, Link: https://github.com/kubeflow/manifests/tree/master/kfserving, Status: 404

Notes

1. HTTP links are requested with python requests

2. Other links are checked by trying to find the file locally

3. HTTP 459 This error is Github rate limiting