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title: "broken links? no problem"
pubDate: 'May 29 2025'
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The past month I've been coming up with ideas and redesigns for my website, some of which are live now, and something that came to my mind while going through my website was that I haven't checked if I got any broken/dead links.

This led me to spending a "few" minutes checking my entire website for dead links, of which have either been moved, deleted or changed url.

It got me wondering, there has to be a better way than this to find broken links on my website? I started thinking maybe I should write a quick script for it, but then I thought somebody else have of course had this idea before!

And what do I find? The same person who created the [guestbook](/guestbook) I'm using have also created a tool for this! 

[Fido](https://fido.meadow.cafe/), created by [Meadow](https://meadow.cafe/), is an [open source project](https://codeberg.org/meadowingc/fido) for exactly this usecase. You just enter a URL to check, wait some seconds, and boom - case solved.

It found six links I had "missed" (just forgot to remove, as I just added a strikethrough on them last time) out on. Such a helpful tool, and I just had to share it with you - the reader.

Thanks Meadow!