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Check Broken Links

Check Broken Links #2

Workflow file for this run

name: Check Broken Links
on:
schedule:
- cron: "0 2 * * 0" # Runs every Sunday at 2 AM
workflow_dispatch:
jobs:
linkcheck:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
env:
GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
ISSUE_LABEL: "Content"
ISSUE_TITLE: "[CONTENT] Broken Links Found"
WORKFLOW_FILE_PATH: ".github/workflows/check-broken-links.yml"
steps:
- name: Checkout
uses: actions/checkout@v4
- name: Check links with linkcheck
uses: filiph/[email protected]
with:
arguments: "https://www.yourwebsite.com --external --skip-file linkcheck-skip-file.txt > linkcheck-results.txt"
id: linkcheck
- name: Upload linkcheck-results.txt as artifact
if: ${{ failure() }}
uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
with:
name: linkcheck-results
path: linkcheck-results.txt
- name: Fetch existing issues
if: ${{ failure() }}
run: gh issue list --label "${ISSUE_LABEL}" --search "${ISSUE_TITLE}" --json number -q ".[].number" > issue_numbers.txt
- name: Close existing issues
if: ${{ failure() }}
run: |
while IFS= read -r ISSUE; do
echo "Attempting to close issue #$ISSUE"
gh issue close $ISSUE --repo ${{ github.repository }}
done < issue_numbers.txt
- name: Create new issue
if: ${{ failure() }}
id: create_issue
uses: dacbd/create-issue-action@main
with:
token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
title: ${{ env.ISSUE_TITLE }}
body: |
**Describe the issue**
During our scheduled (or manually-triggered) link check, the workflow [Check Broken Links](https://github.com/${{ github.repository }}/${{ env.WORKFLOW_FILE_PATH }}) identified one or more broken links in the repository.
Details of the broken links, including their locations and the reasons for failure, can be found in the `linkcheck-results.txt` artifact, at the end of the [failed run page here](https://github.com/${{ github.repository }}/actions/runs/${{ github.run_id }}).
🔗 **Workflow name** - `${{ github.workflow }}`
📇 **Job** - `${{ github.job }}`
🚦 **Status** - `${{ job.status }}`
labels: ${{ env.ISSUE_LABEL }}
assignees: your-github-username
- name: Update closed issues with new issue link
if: ${{ failure() }}
run: |
NEW_ISSUE_LINK="${{ steps.create_issue.outputs.html_url }}"
while IFS= read -r ISSUE; do
gh issue comment $ISSUE --body "Closed in favor of $NEW_ISSUE_LINK"
done < issue_numbers.txt