Indie-Resource.com

Hey there people of Indie-Resource,

I haven't posted here in quite some time, I recnetly got a job working with a company and I help them with the coding for their website. But, out of the control of the website, with over 10,000 total links to outside and inside sources (inside being bookmarks within the site), a lot of the links are bound to become broken, and then I am responsible for going through all of them to search for broken ones :/

So thus, I come to you my good friends!

I was wondering, would it be possible without being nearly impossible (though I am sure it will be a challenge) to create a software or program on my own that automatically goes through the site and checks for broken links and then notifies me of which ones aren't working? If so, my job will become a lot easier and my pay will become a lot better

No, but really, if anyone would be willing to contribute information to the production of this wonderful product (no, I don't want anyone to code it, lol, but things such as what code languages would be most useful, tips/advice/ etc.) it would be very much appreciated!

Thank you all so much,

62896dude

I know Dreamweaver can scan all of your links if it is managing your website, but I am not sure if the same feature is available for imported websites. I would imagine it can though. You would basically import your root folder along with the entire structure of your site, and then it should be able to scan all the links to see which ones are broken.

Could you explain like, how exactly that would work? What kind of function would it run in order to find a broken link? I personally find it amazing that it can do that, but what language would be used for it?

Well, if it is in PHP, I am not sure if it can do it then. I have only used the feature a very tiny bit a while back, and that was all HTML and CSS. Beyond that, it was several versions ago that I used the feature and don't remember how to do it anymore. But it is just an option in the GUI, so it is pretty easy to find, and should be outlined in most fair-length tutorials and better. You could try downloading a trial if you don't have it and see if it will work for you.

Google Webmaster Tools already does this.

yep, the host should have tools for this.

Ahh, there you go!

Noctrine wrote:Google Webmaster Tools already does this.

Yep I know this will work. It some times gives false positives. I had to do something similar to yours for a online gaming group's page/forums.

You can ping the websites. That's a way I used once to check if peoples emails were real.

He was actually wanting to check internal links within his own website to make sure his organization hadn't broken any of his links. For that, web server tools work quite well it seems