ValExtLinks: Make sure that bad YT links count as NG. Various tweaks to project organization.
ValExtLinks: Added files to version control that I used for research when learning how to detect bad YouTube links. Updated to-do list.
ValExtLinks: The messages about skipping URLs now show the wiki page's namespace. Added 504 to known response codes.
ValExtLinks: Val can now recognize bad YouTube links (no thanks to YouTube). Fixed some math errors. Added error 429 to known codes.
ValExtLinks: Changed --suggest-snapshots to --suggest-snapshots-ng and added --suggest-snapshots-ok for getting snapshot URLs for all good links. This can be used to confirm that sites are backed up in case they die in the future, but note that this argument will take hours to run due to the API rate limit. Added awareness of API rate limit so Archive.org will not start blocking script.
ValExtLinks: Changed --skip-archive-links argument to --check-archive-links because the default should be to skip them. Val now uploads all three formats of its report, and links to the RTF and TXT versions from the HTML one. Val can also now tell whether each upload succeeded. A report with no link issues will print a placeholder message in that section of the report. Fixed a bug where Val thought a link should be an interwiki link when it was really a link to an archive.org snapshot from said wiki.
Val now tries each URL three times. This has proven more effective than giving Val a long timeout and trying each URL once. The summary report has been refined a bit; the most notable change is that the final number and breakdown of link issues leaves out the excepted links. Also stopped Val from getting confused by HTML-encoded '&'s in the exceptions list.
ValExtLinks: The 'I Just Broke All The Diff-Gazing' Commit. Revised file structure of the project and added the MIT license. Revised all documentation. HTTP and curl codes are now wiki-formatted and hosted online. In Val itself, I made these changes: Added --timeout argument to change default URL query timeout of 10 seconds. Revised the report header to be easier to read. Less advice is printed directly in the report and more is online at the location linked to under the Legend section.
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