Hey,
I was just thinking about a cool feature for checking links on my DDL website but wanted to get your input on it.
The idea is to whenever a user clicks the "Report dead links" on a submissions, a new window opens.
In order for the download database to stay consistent I could crawl the "check download links" website using curl and display that page to the visitor. This way I could also check if a certain percentage of links is down and remove the submission from the database. The only negative point about this is that my server will have to crawl the "check download links" page everytime a visitor reports a dead submissions.
An alternative I had in mind is to load the "check download links" page into an iframe and then check the amount of dead links via jquery/javascript.
I would have to do a on document ready/on document load event on that page and check the amount of dead links this way.
This way it's all done via the visitor and thus no extra load on the server.
Would this be do-able? I mean grab contents of a page loaded in an iframe and iterate over the document elements? By the color of each link you can make a % of how many dead links there are.
If it passes a certain percentage I would just do an AJAX request to an private API to remove that certain submission.
Inputs are appreciated
-Whoo
I was just thinking about a cool feature for checking links on my DDL website but wanted to get your input on it.
The idea is to whenever a user clicks the "Report dead links" on a submissions, a new window opens.
In order for the download database to stay consistent I could crawl the "check download links" website using curl and display that page to the visitor. This way I could also check if a certain percentage of links is down and remove the submission from the database. The only negative point about this is that my server will have to crawl the "check download links" page everytime a visitor reports a dead submissions.
An alternative I had in mind is to load the "check download links" page into an iframe and then check the amount of dead links via jquery/javascript.
I would have to do a on document ready/on document load event on that page and check the amount of dead links this way.
This way it's all done via the visitor and thus no extra load on the server.
Would this be do-able? I mean grab contents of a page loaded in an iframe and iterate over the document elements? By the color of each link you can make a % of how many dead links there are.
If it passes a certain percentage I would just do an AJAX request to an private API to remove that certain submission.
Inputs are appreciated
-Whoo
