You can parse the buffer, and run some code on all of the links. I did something like this here http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2013/09/28/Changing-links-to-files-so-they-work-in-a-blog/for another reason. You could adapt that to do your link validation. I guess you will need to send a request to the url to see if it is valid.
John ----------------------------------- John Kitchin Associate Professor Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 10:23 PM, Grant Rettke <g...@wisdomandwonder.com>wrote: > Hi, > > One of my documents has ~200 HTML links in the footnotes. > > Wondering how folks check the links? > > My goal is that: > 1. Each footnote with a URL is evaluated > 2. They are evaluated to determine whether the URL is valid > 3. Check whether or not the page exists > 4. Add some indicate in the footnote that it was found not to be up on > some date. > > This might require some custom coding, no? > > Regards, > > Grant Rettke | AAAS, ACM, AMA, COG, FSF, IEEE, Sigma Xi > gret...@acm.org | http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/ > “Wisdom begins in wonder.” --Socrates > ((λ (x) (x x)) (λ (x) (x x))) > “Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop > taking it seriously.” --Thompson > >
