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microsoft / linkcheckermd

A VSCode extension that check links in Markdown to ensure they are valid.
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Checking Web Site for Broken Links #59

Closed aksarben closed 2 years ago

aksarben commented 2 years ago

Sorry if this isn’t the right place to post this. I was sent here by a Ask a Question button on another page.

Can this Visual Studio Code extension check an entire Web site for broken links? The documentation I’ve seen only seems to deal with checking a single Web page at a time, which is impractical for a large site like mine.

Blackmist commented 2 years ago

@aksarben It only checks links in the currently opened file in VSCode.

aksarben commented 2 years ago

It didn’t even update the opened file. I was watching as I renamed the target in the folder pane, and there was no change to the href in the open file.

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@aksarbenhttps://github.com/aksarben It only checks links in the currently opened file in VSCode.

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Blackmist commented 2 years ago

@aksarben This extension doesn't monitor for changes to the document. Instead, it has to be ran manually. For example, setting to a hotkey such as alt + L. Running it parses the markdown file currently open in VSCode and tries to validate the links. It then generates a report of the problem links.

aksarben commented 2 years ago

Ok. So checks only the currently open file.

I'm considering migrating from Expression Web 4 (EW4), which updates all the files in a project within a few seconds. But that comes with a price: For every file in the project, EW4 maintains a metadata file that records links to and from the source code file. A lot of overhead disk-space-wise, but greatly improved performance. Makes a huge difference to large Web sites such as ours.

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From: Larry Franks @.> Sent: Monday, October 17, 2022 1:58 PM To: microsoft/linkcheckermd @.> Cc: Dick Adams @.>; Mention @.> Subject: Re: [microsoft/linkcheckermd] Checking Web Site for Broken Links (Issue #59)

@aksarbenhttps://github.com/aksarben This extension doesn't monitor for changes to the document. Instead, it has to be ran manually. For example, setting to a hotkey such as alt + L. Running it parses the markdown file currently open in VSCode and tries to validate the links. It then generates a report of the problem links.

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