nf-core / nf-core/tools

Check for dead links in the template during linting

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Since May 28, 2026.

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Description of feature

Some links eventually die and it can be quite difficult to spot them. It would be nice if the linter could parse the links from all markdown files and raise a warning if any of them raises a 404 error.

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