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Show HN: Brokenlink.io: A fast broken link checker API

• fiatjaf 9y ago
  This is useful, but I can't imagine someone paying for it. I hope I'm wrong.
  • jsegura 9y ago
    This is what we want to confirm. We believe that this can be useful when integrating on your own systems, like CI/CD, monitoring, etc. What is the use case that made you to believe this is useful? Thanks for the feedback!
    • fiatjaf 9y ago
      Not an use-case I have currently for myself, but I thought that wikis and other services that host content written by third-parties would be better if they checked broken-links and notified visitors and content creators. Maybe my use-case is limiting my ability to think about someone paying for it.
      • davidpelayo 9y ago
        How certain startups CMS based content could go checking broken-links? 1. They implement their own checker - fair enough, if they want to do it. 2. They use a micro API for it and forget about investing the time on it, if it works well for them.
        • fiatjaf 9y ago
          Now I can imagine it :P
  • davidpelayo 9y ago
    So, just trying to understand: how is that you find it useful but can't imagine someone paying for it? Could you elaborate a bit more?
    • fiatjaf 9y ago
      Would you pay for air?
• phoboss 9y ago
  It seems interesting for health checking, are you able to run them like every minute and integrate with alert systems?
• davidpelayo 9y ago
  As a developer, I find this an useful API to validate links of my CMS generated websites within my CI system. This way, using sync requests to my sites, I can easily await the results and fail the jenkins job or promote the deployment. By the way, here the output on news.ycombinator.com: https://brokenlink.io/api/check?url=https://news.ycombinator.com&mode=async https://brokenlink.io/api/check?url=https://news.ycombinator...
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