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On 22/9/2013 21:14, worthingtonclinton@gmail.com wrote:

> Was hoping to get some tips or advice on scripting a program that would sort through my many links on my directory website and print out to me the ones that are broken or no longer functioning so that I could fix or remove them from the site. Any help, ideas, advice will be greatly appreciated.

Since it's your own website, the best answer is probably to process the
source to that site. Was it written by a python script?

Otherwise, if the site is reasonably correct (as most are not), then
Beautiful Soup is probably the place to start.

-- 
DaveA