<aside> 💡 There now exists two linkchecker systems - one for VIN documents and one for email newsletters. Below covers the system created for VIN documents. Here is the documentation for email newsletters.

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Summary

• VIN documents host a large number of hyperlinks
• checking these links manually can be time-consuming and error-prone
• we initially created a tool to automate the checking of links within email newsletters, to provide an extra layer of robustness to sending out mailings
• this tool has since been adapted to enable the checking of webpage documents
• usage of the tool will generate a Report that includes each content link within the document (excludes header and footer links), together with a ‘Status’ of the link, and a screenshot of the linked page, for eg:

• each link will show the hyperlinked text, and is checked to see if it is valid (doesn’t return a 404 or other message). Additionally a screenshot is taken of the page that is landed upon when visiting the link to be able to check visually that it is as expected. Hovering over this page will enlarge it for closer inspection.

• when a link is broken it will display as such:

  

How to use👇

1. make sure that your VIN VPN is enabled
2. visit this page http://linkchecker.ivalalearn.com/pages/
3. a Report will be generated that parses the hyperlinks within as above