Checking for dead urls

[michellaurent]

I'm very happy with the power of Maizzle to build HTML emails.

I would be nice to be able to validate that all urls entered in a link (href) are correct/reachable (url returns a "valid" HTTP code).

Any idea how to do this ?

• Create a transformer that will add a ❌ next to the unreachable url ?
• Throws an error if a link url is unreachable (add a function to do that in the afterRender event) ?
• ?

[michellaurent]

Maybe this article could help:

https://silvenon.com/blog/checking-for-dead-urls

[cossssmin]

For local dev in your editor I'd probably go with something like this, otherwise yeah afterRender would be a good spot. You could probably just get away with using something like axios in afterRender and validating that you got a 200 back 👍

[michellaurent]

I can check the status of all links in the html content using axios but how can I return an error from this afterRender event to the build script ?