Docs CI fails

[mbackenkoehler]

Currently, the Docs CI fails on the Sphinx 404 checks. Take this one, for example.

@dominiquesydow Any ideas for a quick fix?

[dominiquesydow]

Hi @mbackenkoehler,

It seems like the URL checker that we have been using here (broken-link-checker) is no longer maintained:

npm WARN exec The following package was not found and will be installed: broken-link-checker@0.7.8
npm WARN deprecated calmcard@0.1.1: no longer maintained
npm WARN deprecated nopter@0.3.0: try optionator
npm WARN deprecated urlobj@0.0.11: use universal-url, minurl, relateurl, url-relation
npm WARN deprecated uuid@2.0.3: Please upgrade  to version 7 or higher.  Older versions may use Math.random() in certain circumstances, which is known to be problematic.  See https://v8.dev/blog/math-random for details.
Error: Unhandled Rejection. Error: connect ECONNREFUSED ::1:8000
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.

Could you please try either the proposed package in the error message --- or try ´linkinator´ which we are using for our lab website:
https://github.com/volkamerlab/volkamerlab_org/blob/482d6cb15f4406c1b1863123efe8d5b294c1f7cd/.github/workflows/ci.yaml#L33

[mbackenkoehler]

I switched to linkinator. This seems to work fine. (see #335 )

However, there are a quite a few dead links right now. I will open an separate issue for that.

[mbackenkoehler]

Broken links are collected in #336

[mbackenkoehler]

Docs CI fixed.