InDesign does check for broken links before you export the .epub, if you've got them all set up as links in the first place, but that still doesn't do anything for rot. #eprdctn
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Got it. So a tool that extracted the URLs and returned the HTML status codes would be a pretty good first step.
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I would love this. I would think it could be built on the W3C link checker, just with the ability to read epubs instead of having to pull them apart into webpages.
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I feel like it's just: 1. Unpack epub 2. XSLT out the links 3. Get status codes with curl 4. Profit!
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LOVE YOU GUYS. Want to announce it at
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Man, what a productive
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If you really want to wow the crowd, have the results include a field that lets me enter the client's new URLs for each broken one, click a button, and be done with the whole thing.
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And for that matter, also allow me to remove the href entirely, leaving the link text intact.
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Removing the href from the link would make the link less accessible and do nothing to preserve the content of said link. We would love if you considered archiving the links and using services like
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Also—is it a smart bet that those services and their 2018 URLs will still be around in five, ten, or fifty years? These are books, after all. They're intended to last longer than web pages.
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Webrecorder is free to use, and you can download all content to view locally with our desktop app https://github.com/webrecorder/webrecorderplayer-electron/releases … Also works well with http://perma.cc and any other web archive data (WARC format). If a service no longer up, you can still have a copy of the archive
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The context of the conversation is ebooks and link rot. There's no archiving or downloading anything. Links in ebooks go bad, Amazon and Apple complain, users can't get where they wanted to click to, and there's no apparent solution.
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I mange the Wayback Machine at the
@internetarchive We also run http://openlibrary.org I am very interested in the topic of link rot in epubs (.mobi and .epub files, etc.) and have some ideas to make things better. Please email me at mark@archive.org Thank you!1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes - 1 more reply
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