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2014-02-26 06:47
bepp

Registered: Jun 2010
Posts: 268
Find broken downloads

Is there any query I can do to find entries with broken downloads? I've tried the advanced search but couldn't see "broken download" checkbox. Was thinking of trying to resolve some of them...
2014-02-26 07:34
Moloch

Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 2972
Hmm, there was a page years ago that displayed all entries with broken links. Don't have a link anymore and not sure if it still works.

I do know CBA used it to get rid of lots of dead links; maybe he still knows the link?
2014-02-26 07:40
Moloch

Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 2972
This isn't the broken link displayer mentioned in the previous post, but you can search comments with it to find the word broken. Came up with quite a few in a quick test

http://csdb.dk/search/comments.php

But still, the original download checker was better
2014-02-26 07:44
Moloch

Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 2972
Damn, searched through some old bookmarks file and found it! Strange, only lists 52 entries with broken downloads.

http://csdb.dk/misc/brokenlinks.php
2014-02-26 07:54
jailbird

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1578
Considering there are 27 releases which only have external links, that doesn't seem to me as too strange. But maybe the scripts are broken too :)
2014-02-26 08:07
bepp

Registered: Jun 2010
Posts: 268
Ah cool page. However, it seems to only check external urls. It doesn't respect the "corrupted file" flag... :-|
2014-02-26 08:15
jailbird

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1578
Quote: Ah cool page. However, it seems to only check external urls. It doesn't respect the "corrupted file" flag... :-|

Since most of (if not all) the releases with broken links have internal (i.e. working) download links too, it isn't such a big deal.
Now, what actually could be a problem when the download URLs of those releases that only have external links stop working. So they all need re-uploads to the internal CSDb server.
2014-02-26 08:16
Perff
Administrator

Posts: 1686
Here is another link showing corrupted files.
http://csdb.dk/misc/corruptedfiles.php

There have been made some simple DB-extract pages like this over the years when requested by someone, but they are not really documented anywhere.
If you need somthing, just ask like here. :)
2014-02-26 08:50
Moloch

Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 2972
Duh, the broken link was used mainly for entries without downloads, remember now. ;)
2014-02-26 10:10
bepp

Registered: Jun 2010
Posts: 268
Thanks Perff! While at it, you might want to check your "broken link" algorithm for external urls... Several of the ones I've tried do actually work - although being reported as broken. Examples:

Arcade Football &GD
APIandC64

Is there a problem with DropBox links and redirects perhaps?
2014-02-26 17:45
chatGPZ

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11523
i think the links are only checked once in a while, thats why status is wrong sometimes. also obviously if the server doesnt provide a proper reply, but serves some placeholder something instead, then it cant be checked.
 
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