Question - setting up html proofer to skip new pages added to a website which will return a 404 about html-proofer HOT 3 CLOSED

You have a couple of options here:

• If the new links point to known URLs, you can ignore the URLs directly: htmlproofer --ignore-urls "/www.github.com/,/foo.com/"
• If you are able to edit the HTML directly, adding a data-proofer-ignore attribute to any element ignores any checks: <a href="https://notareallink" data-proofer-ignore>Not checked.</a>
• You can also explicitly ignore specific files from checks: htmlproofer --ignore-files "/dir_of_new_files/, new_file.html"

Would any of these work for you? The GitHub Action example just collects all the new files and passes them into --ignore-files--you can provide your own list or a directory if that's easier.

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(Closing this not because I won't keep helping if you have questions, but because I like to keep a clean issue list in my repos.)

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hi 👋 thank you!! i definitely understand issue lists becoming unwieldy!
i think i may have poorly described the issue.

Essentially we are creating a new piece of content in the PR so the new link is a new page on the website. please see here: for an example (screenshot below as well). Essentially installable-code.html is a new page in our guidebook that we are adding. so every time we add a new page html proofer can't find it because it isn't online yet.

In the html-proofer readme, i see a section on ignoring new files.

the code is below and i think it's trying to parse through the files but skipping the newly added file (maybe)?:

directories = ['content']
merge_base = %x(git merge-base origin/production HEAD).chomp
diffable_files = %x(git diff -z --name-only --diff-filter=AC #{merge_base}).split("\0")
diffable_files = diffable_files.select do |filename|
  next true if directories.include?(File.dirname(filename))

  filename.end_with?(".md")
end.map { |f| Regexp.new(File.basename(f, File.extname(f))) }

HTMLProofer.check_directory("./output", { ignore_urls: diffable_files }).run

but

1. i'm not sure how to implement this in my github action here.
2. And i'm also not sure if i do implement that fix will it totally skip checking the new page for bad links and such as well?

i hope this makes more sense! Essentially each time i create a new website page, our build breaks because the new page is not yet online and as such it's a broken link according to HTML proofer (i think anyway that is what is happening). many thanks again!!

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