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txt file and broken links do not get reported on the talk page with weblinkchecker

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SSethi (WMF) (talkcontribs)

I'm trying the Manual:Pywikibot/weblinkchecker.py to obtain broken links on the page "Aeroflot" on test.wikipedia.org. It does generate a "deadlinks-wikipedia-test.dat" file. I am looking for a ".txt" file, but that isn't generated by re-running the command a second time as per instructions given in the manual. Also, I've modified the settings in "user-config.py" to set "report_dead_links_on_talk" to true to report the dead links on the talk page. That also doesn't seem to be working. Any leads?

Dvorapa (talkcontribs)

After how long did you re-run the script and what was your command (did you set -day)? Usually with most parameters left in defaults you have to run the script and then re-run the script between one and two weeks later. Only then it will generate the second txt file and talk pages memos as expected.

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