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

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Post by jsegura » Thu, Nov 02, 2017, 4:43 PM UTC

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

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

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Post by fiatjaf » Thu, Nov 02, 2017, 5:07 PM UTC

This is useful, but I can't imagine someone paying for it. I hope I'm wrong.

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

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Post by jsegura » Thu, Nov 02, 2017, 5:11 PM UTC

fiatjaf wrote: post #2

This is useful, but I can't imagine someone paying for it. I hope I'm wrong.

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!

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

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Post by davidpelayo » Thu, Nov 02, 2017, 5:14 PM UTC

fiatjaf wrote: post #2

This is useful, but I can't imagine someone paying for it. I hope I'm wrong.

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?

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

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Post by phoboss » Thu, Nov 02, 2017, 5:19 PM UTC

It seems interesting for health checking, are you able to run them like every minute and integrate with alert systems?

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

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Post by davidpelayo » Thu, Nov 02, 2017, 5:31 PM UTC

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...

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

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Nov 02, 2017, 5:37 PM UTC

davidpelayo wrote: post #6

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...

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

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Post by fiatjaf » Thu, Nov 02, 2017, 8:33 PM UTC

davidpelayo wrote: post #4

fiatjaf wrote: post #2

This is useful, but I can't imagine someone paying for it. I hope I'm wrong.

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?

Would you pay for air?

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

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Post by fiatjaf » Thu, Nov 02, 2017, 8:37 PM UTC

jsegura wrote: post #3

fiatjaf wrote: post #2

This is useful, but I can't imagine someone paying for it. I hope I'm wrong.

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!

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.

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

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Post by davidpelayo » Thu, Nov 02, 2017, 8:48 PM UTC

fiatjaf wrote: post #9

jsegura wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

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.

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.