On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 05:43:25PM +0200,
Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
a message of 39 lines which said:
> Does somebody know of a "link check service" for del.icio.us?
I'm currently writing one. Before you scream "Yet Another One!" (three
link checkers have been mentioned in this thread only), let me explain
the features of my tool which, are, I believe, unique among
del.icio.us checkers:
* free software ("free as in free speech, not free as in free beer"):
source code available and you can modify and redistribute it
* designed to be run unattended (typically from cron on an Unix
machine)
* has a memory: it stores locally the result of the tests and declares
a link broken only after N tests in a row failed (N is
configurable). It would be very bad, IMHO, to tag a link as broken if
there was only a temporary network glitch.
* tag the broken links (as soon as I'll discover how to tag with the API)
Beta-testers welcome (it runs on my machine already). You'll need
Python and SQLite. Tested on Unix but does not use anything
Unix-specific so should run on MS-Windows.
del.icio.us staff: I believe I followed the rules in
http://del.icio.us/help/api/
The name is not choosen yet but the beta version claims itself as
"dis.astro.us"
