Dark_links provides a module to find broken urls in blobs of html and markdown markup. Original code was written by @srecnig, gemification by @michaelem. If you're wondering, the name dark_links is a reference.
Include DarkLinks::LinkValidator in your model or plain class and call the provided methods with the text you want to check for broken links.
check_links("The Zelda series has a website: http://www.zelda.com/")
You will reccive a hash containing all the found links as keys and true (works) or false (broken) as values.
{ "http://www.zelda.com/" => true }
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.
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We found that dark_links demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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