Ok. I had added some dead links to the user page and was testing to see what it would do. Thank you!

On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 4:02 PM, masti <mastigm@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,
all the examples are in the script help.
You have to run it on a list of pages not just Your user page
the bot will create a database of the links it thinks are dead.
the bot will only report links as dead if they are found dead at least twice several days apart. Default is 7 days.
So once You run it through the whole namespace You will have to wait some days to rerun it.
You can set the rquired period with -day  parameter
but less than a week does not make sense as it will report dead link for a temporary problems with site

masti

On 05/28/2016 07:18 PM, . wrote:

Hi all,

I'my trying to run weblinkchecker from my own computer. I've logged in to the bot account, but when I try to run weblink checker, like this:

>python weblinkchecker.py UserPage:usernamegoeshere

I just get a very long bunch of help text on the screen "This bot is used for checking external links found at the wiki" etc. I don't know if I'm successfully running the script or not, and whether it's actually checking any links.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks!

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