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Find and archive dead URLs without deleting history.

Software Engineering#wayback#github workflows#index maintenance#link liveness#url auditing#content archival
AuthorExecutioner1939
Version1.0.0
Installs0

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What problem does it solve?

dead-link-sweep prevents your curated INDEX sources/tools lists from silently degrading by identifying dead URLs and archiving them with clear tombstones and optional Wayback references.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • Liveness probing: Scans active entries in INDEX/sources.md and optionally INDEX/tools.md using HTTP HEAD requests and classifies results (2xx, redirects, 4xx/5xx, DNS/SSL/connect failures, timeouts).
  • Deterministic archival with audit trail: Moves confirmed-dead rows into _archived/ instead of hard-deleting, adding last_seen and reason (and wayback when available).
  • Optional repo-state enrichment for tools: When targeting tools, fetches repository metadata to mark archived/stale repos based on archived status and pushed_at recency.
  • Operational reporting: Generates an _archived/sweep-report-<YYYY-MM-DD>.md summary and supports the standard link-sweep/<date> workflow.

Quick Start

Run dead-link-sweep to scan INDEX/sources.md and _archived-archive any confirmed-dead URLs with recorded reasons and a daily sweep report.

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Name: dead-link-sweep
Download link: https://github.com/Executioner1939/awesome-engineering-research/archive/main.zip#dead-link-sweep

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