Automated link checking?

[MikeMcC399]

Your Question

Is there some way to automate checking of links used by https://www.coronawarn.app/ to identify failed links, like the one reported in #886?

In the cwa-documentation repository there is a check in
checks.yml

      - name: Checking for broken links
        if: always()
        run: |
          npm run-script checklinks

unfortunately this can't be taken 1:1 because it only checks markdown files *.md

"checklinks": "find . -not -path \"*node_modules*\" -not -path \"*.github*\" -name \"*.md\" | xargs -n 1 markdown-link-check",

Perhaps there is something similar which could be used on https://www.coronawarn.app/?

[heinezen]

cwa-documentation has the advantage that all files are pure static Markdown. For the website, Markdown (blogposts) and JSON files with HTML (FAQ) are compiled into the resulting website, so we might not be able to just check the source files for errors. This would make a solution more complicated. However, we could check the output of the build because that is HTML-only. Not sure how easy this would be.

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Corona-Warn-App Open Source Team

[MikeMcC399]

@dsarkar
There are major changes to links in the open PR #1772 for the analysis page.

How can these links be checked to make sure they all work?

[MikeMcC399]

Links are still broken, see #1778.

Edit: now fixed.

[MikeMcC399]

Closing in favour of feature request #1781.