SID-00040: Find broken links in all topics

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	pre-4	Perl version:	5.8.8
Category:	CategoryMissingFunctionality	Server OS:	Suse	Last update:	17 years ago

Hi, all What I want: I want to check all topics in all webs and find broken links. Most (90%) of the links are internal (point to another topic inside TWiki).

What I've done: I thought that it's better to 1) "grep" all links from all topic_name.txt files and 2) write script to check whether that topic (in the link) exist or not.

I've learned perl just to do this task & but I think still don't have enough knowledge. I see that inside View.pm there are function calls of "checkWebExits" & "topicExists". I want to use these functions, but I don't now how. What should be arguments (is just topic name enough for instance), how should I include "packages"..... So many questions...

Please can you help me to enter this world of TWiki and Perl. Any kind of comments, explanations, documentations are welcomed.

Thanks.

-- AkzholAbdukhaliev - 15 Jan 2009

Discussion and Answer

See OrphansPlugin, WantedTopics, FindReferencedButNotDefinedWikiWords, ListingAllUndefinedButUsedWikiWords, HowToFindOrphanedTopics.

Plugins with API is documented at TWikiPlugins, TWikiFuncDotPm.

-- PeterThoeny - 16 Jan 2009

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