Local festival site had errors, so I wrote a checker script

I used Python to find broken links on our festival site. It's a solid way for beginners to practice coding.

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Run that script right before big updates go live. I once saw a festival site where the 'buy tickets' link broke right when sales opened. Total chaos, people couldn't get in. Your script could catch that early. Maybe set it up to email you if it finds new broken links. That way you're not manually checking all the time.

sarahmorgan1mo ago

Our volunteer page died last year, @the_susan. Automated alerts are key.

miller.avery14d agoMost Upvoted

We had the same thing happen with our donation form. Setting up a simple cron job to check the page every hour saved us last fundraiser. It caught a broken CSS file that would have hidden the submit button. Why wait for users to report problems when you can know first? A quick script running in the background is way better than frantic emails from confused people.