Show HN: Brokenlink.io: A fast broken link checker API

Show HN: Brokenlink.io: A fast broken link checker API(brokenlink.io)

3 points by jsegura 8 years ago | 8 comments

As a developer, I find this an useful API to validate links of my CMS generated websites within my CI system. This way, using sync requests to my sites, I can easily await the results and fail the jenkins job or promote the deployment.

By the way, here the output on news.ycombinator.com: https://brokenlink.io/api/check?url=https://news.ycombinator...

fiatjaf 8 years ago |

This is useful, but I can't imagine someone paying for it. I hope I'm wrong.

jsegura 8 years ago | |

This is what we want to confirm. We believe that this can be useful when integrating on your own systems, like CI/CD, monitoring, etc.

What is the use case that made you to believe this is useful?

Thanks for the feedback!

fiatjaf 8 years ago | | |

Not an use-case I have currently for myself, but I thought that wikis and other services that host content written by third-parties would be better if they checked broken-links and notified visitors and content creators.

Maybe my use-case is limiting my ability to think about someone paying for it.

davidpelayo 8 years ago | |

So, just trying to understand: how is that you find it useful but can't imagine someone paying for it? Could you elaborate a bit more?

fiatjaf 8 years ago | | |

Would you pay for air?