Link checker

[lwasser]

Let's look and fix our CI and to make sure that the link checker skips GitHub references. They tend to be fickle, but we often link to them, causing a huge volume of pings, which can result in a 429 Too Many Requests error.

We might want to consider turning off link checker with htmlproofer (and let it just handle alt tags, etc) and moving to a lychee approach like we use in our website repo

https://github.com/pyOpenSci/pyopensci.github.io/blob/main/.github/workflows/linkcheck.yml

[tkoyama010]

@all-contributors please add @lwasser for ideas

[allcontributors]

@tkoyama010

I've put up a pull request to add @lwasser! 🎉

[RobPasMue]

Let me have a look at this one as part of PyCon US @lwasser @flpm -- should be easy to fix

[RobPasMue]

Hmm seems like we can close this issue already? There is already a .lycheeignore file at the pyopensci.github.io repository, which is where this linkcheck operation got transferred if I am not mistaken (the URL in the issue description redirects to it)

[lwasser]

I am going to close this issue as complete. thank you @RobPasMue !!