Github tool to validate links in markdown [closed]

Question

What I plan to do in some of my README.md files is provide hyperlinks to other sites that I cite. However, we all run into that problem when links die or get moved, and said link becomes invalidated. =(

Is there a github tool that can run nightly checks to see if all the links in a README.md file (or something similar) are working correctly?

What I'm looking for is something that has a feature similar to Travis CI, where a project could have a badge saying "link-passing" on the project's main github page. (Example: scikit-learn has those two classy looking "build-passing" badges.)

Answer 1

I think what you want to use is awesome_bot.

It doesn't provide the badge you want but it does check URLs in files.