Hi Stephane,
Good idea..
> 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
>
Just wanted to let you know, that mine
(http://www.tiede.dk:8080/roller/kim/entry/del_icio_us_post_checker)
is free as weel - both free as in free speech and as in free beer :-)
The code is available at google project under the Apache license.
http://code.google.com/p/delicious-post-checker/
> * designed to be run unattended (typically from cron on an Unix
> machine)
>
If you can program Java you are more than welcome to add a console
extension to the delicious-post-checker.
> * 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.
>
Good idea!
> * tag the broken links (as soon as I'll discover how to tag with the API)
Again a good idea... In delicious-post-checker you can decide to
delete the bookmark if you want to.
Anyway - you are more than welcome to extend the
delicious-post-checker and if you are interested you could get
committer-access to subversion? I made the project originally because
I wanted to learn how to do GUI using Matise (a Java layout manager),
so I have not been very active on the project since the release. So
if others are interested in doing work on it they are more than
welcome!
Cheers
Kim
