broken-link-check-python.md

Mac -- dead_link_seeker.py

The /dead_link_seeker.py script can be run from any machine and requires Python and dependencies to be installed.

What is revealed in a broken link check

• Missing ALT tags -- ALT tags are important for accessibility purposes and should be fixed if possible.
• Broken external links -- Manually check these because the broken-link-checks don't deal with external links
• Email addresses -- Manually check because checker doesn't deal with them
• Broken internal links -- these must be fixed

TIP: Add false positives to the dead_link_seeker.py false_postitive list at the end of the file.

Before you begin

• Build FeatureBase-docs locally
• Install Python
• Install urllib, collections and HTMLParser packages

Run dead_link_seeker.py

python dead_link_seeker.py {address} [v]

Arguments:

Argument	Description	Example
address	local or remote address	http://127.0.0.1:4000/ http://docs.featurebase.com/
v	verbose mode