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Donate to the internet archive. Then once in a while run some script to check your links, if they fail or pointing to crap link to the archive? Check them agai
by greggman 11y ago
Donate to the internet archive. Then once in a while run some script to check your links, if they fail or pointing to crap link to the archive? Check them again later just incase you got a false positive?
Yea I know it won't work for all links.
- MasterScrat 11y agoSounds like there should be a service for that: * make a copy of all linked resources when each post is published * regularly compare the linked resources to the copies to make sure the links still work as expected * when a link dies, automatically replace it with a link to the copy
- gosub 11y agomore than a service (the service provider could also disappear), it should be a function of the publishing platform
- sp332 11y agoThere's an extension called Resurrect Pages that modifies Firefox's "Page not Found" screen, so you can pull the URL from Google's cache or the Internet Archive. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/resurrect-pages/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/resurrect-pag...