404 Link Detection about awesome-gamemaker HOT 4 CLOSED

Yes! What a nightmare! Why did I think this was a good idea?

There are many GitHub actions that do this, but due to newer releases of Node, and GitHub's policy to discontinue support for previous versions each year, it guarantees that they will stop working at some point. Maybe there is a way to run the action with the latest version of Node and the respective actions I'm using. 15 minute simple task vs. 4 hour automation, etc, etc.

I've had the most success with this. I just need to make sure I'm providing the appropriate permissions.
https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee-action

There are some caveats. First, it can submit duplicate issues. It doesn't check if the broken link is already listed as a GitHub issue. I'm thinking it would be overkill to run this every month, so probably annually/biannually. Second, I was getting several "too many request" errors from itch.io. Maybe there is a way to limit the amount of requests. Other links appear to work fine. (Most of them are on GitHub, so I would hope they work.)

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Ok, much better. The errors I got were for legitimate 404's, and it looks like itch isn't rate limiting the requests anymore.

By default, lychee has a --max-concurrency of 128, so setting that to 1 definitely fixed the issue with itch. There's probably a sweet spot between 1-128 where the too many requests error gets triggered. Considering this will only run every six months or so, I don't think having a low concurrency will be that big of a deal. Takes less than a minute without it.

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