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Link Rot Rx: 'Amber' Add-on For WordPress and Drupal

Posted by timothy on from the nobody-likes-a-rotten-link dept.

David Rothman writes: If you run a WordPress or Drupal site, you can now fight link rot with Amber, a new open source add-on from Harvard's Berkman Center. If links are dead, visitors can still summon up the pages as stored on your server or, if you prefer, outside ones such as the Internet Archive. TeleRead has the details, and the Amber site is here, with download information.

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  1. Working link for Amber download by DavidRothman9947 · · Score: 2

    Try this link: http://amberlink.org/#download and email me at davidrothman@pobox.com if it does not work. Don't blame the Amber. It's possible something happened when I was posting the item here. OK. You may now switch off your irony detectors. Thanks. DR (not associated with Amber but glad it's around!)

  2. Re:let's store the Internet by Trax3001BBS · · Score: 2

    But even pre-google newsgroups were available via web browser and services like Deja News ...

    Shame about Deja News http://www.dejanews.com/

  3. The Internet Archive is a poor backup by drinkypoo · · Score: 2

    On one hand, there's a lot of content in the IA that would have vanished forever if not for their help. On the other hand, I can't access my old content, if they even have it, because the current owner of the domain has configured their robots.txt such that they won't permit me to have it back. If a site goes down, it's highly likely that the new site will get a robots.txt that does not permit archiving, and you won't be able to access the links anyway... because rarely does a domain actually ever go away. Usually, it gets parked and farmed.

    --
    "You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
  4. Robustify,js by tuxzone · · Score: 2

    Any website CMS that allows you to specify the JavaScripts you run could use a similar tool "Robustify.js" (https://github.com/renevoorburg/robustify.js), except for that it doesn't archive itself but relies on other web archiving services to have done that for you.

    With Robustify.js, if a user hits a links that returns a 404, the user will be redirected using the Memento-protocol to a webarchive that does have a copy.

    René