Add CI to verify validity of links about awesome-cli-apps HOT 12 CLOSED

Still have this on my TODO list. Been busy with IRL stuff (as you can tell from my commit history) but I intend to complete this soon. Sorry for the delay.

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I would love that. Could you submit a PR?

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I could, but first we would need to agree on where to put it. Having a separate branch sounds tedious to me, a separate repo sounds better. What do you think? It makes sense for it to live on your account no matter the approach.

If you think a separate repo sounds ok you can create one and I'll submit a PR.

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Having a separate repo seems a little odd to me. What would be tedious about a branch?

What might be even better is just having a Github bot that submits a pull request if it finds a broken link. Then this could be used for many different projects. I wonder if this exists already...

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It looks like this may already be doing this for every repo on GitHub: https://github.com/evuez/github-links-checker.

But it looks like the last issue is from 3 years ago.

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My experience is that it's easier to accidentally merge branches that should not be merged than repos.

Yeah, a bot that does PRs that automatically removes broken links would be even better. I have no experience writing bots for GitHub though but I have a script ready to go for my proposal.

That python bot looks ok, but latest issue is from 2015 so I'm guessing it's not running anymore. Or maybe I'm misunderstanding it.

UPDATE:
What do you say as a first iteration to have a script run every 24hr in a separate branch? Low effort and we'll know if something is broken. This would require you to setup Travis with this repo though since you are the owner.

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Ok, cool, here it is: https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps-link-checker

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Ok cool! I just updated my comment suggesting to do it in a branch, I'll leave that decision up to you :) I'm fine with whatever.

Going to bed now so just let me know what you think is best and I'll create a PR when it's done. If you go with the repo maybe it could be donw in such a way that it checks for all of your list repos? I noticed you have several.

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Yeah, let's go ahead and do it in a separate repo. It would be nice to check all my list repos.

https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-link-checker

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@simeg ping! Do you still have that script ready?

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Hey @agarrharr. Been busy lately with IRL stuff but been meaning to fix this. Will try to get it done soon.

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Closing this, since it appears to be up and running now.

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