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From: Oa8choo2 <77433187+Oa8choo2@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2025 14:14:41 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Update build.yml remove link check
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Replace the link check by lychee and run this as a weekly reporting, generating an issue when broken links are found. See [lycheeverse/lychee: ⚡ Fast, async, stream-based link checker written in Rust. Finds broken URLs and mail addresses inside Markdown, HTML, reStructuredText, websites and more!](https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee?tab=readme-ov-file)
---
 .github/workflows/build.yml | 9 ---------
 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yml b/.github/workflows/build.yml
index ec6338fa0a02..e8166f3330e9 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yml
@@ -30,12 +30,3 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           python3 build.py
           find build -type f
-
-      - name: Check faulty external links
-        run: |
-          cd scripts/link_checker
-          pip install -r requirements.txt
-          echo "Generating links from build"
-          ./generate_links_from_build.sh ../../build/HPC/Gent > links.txt
-          echo "Checking links"
-          python check_links.py --whitelist whitelist.txt links.txt

From ea7d7d5247a9dba55a1079291779e37636b84c16 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oa8choo2 <77433187+Oa8choo2@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2025 14:22:54 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Create links.yml

add lychee, a link checker, which will run every day at 6.
---
 .github/workflows/links.yml | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .github/workflows/links.yml

diff --git a/.github/workflows/links.yml b/.github/workflows/links.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ef5638c3e21e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/links.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+name: Links
+
+on:
+  repository_dispatch:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  schedule:
+    - cron: "00 6 * * *"
+
+jobs:
+  linkChecker:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    permissions:
+      issues: write # required for peter-evans/create-issue-from-file
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Link Checker
+        id: lychee
+        uses: lycheeverse/lychee-action@v2
+        with:
+          fail: false
+
+      - name: Create Issue From File
+        if: steps.lychee.outputs.exit_code != 0
+        uses: peter-evans/create-issue-from-file@v5
+        with:
+          title: Link Checker Report
+          content-filepath: ./lychee/out.md
+          labels: report, automated issue