Batch url checking for Portfolios in Electronic Collections
Can Alma test all of the links in all the Portfolios in an Electronic Collection, in batch, and report back a count of successes and fails?
AND (very importantly) give me list of the fails, so I can check/fix them?
Steve Schermerhorn
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Alma supports integrating with an external client-based linkchecker applications – read more about it here:
https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/blog/the-new-export-urls-job/
In the past we've reviewed the request to develop an Alma link checker, but determined that in order for a linkchecker to work properly it actually needs to run on the client side as links to publishers interfaces are restricted to IP ranges of the library.
Having a linkchecker run on the server side will result in links that will be presented with publisher’s login pages and will not yield the expected results of a linkchecker.
Best,
Alma Product Team