# broken links Published articles for broken links. This is one page of public article previews, not the complete archive. Follow Next page to continue. Summaries are not the original full articles. ## PDFx - Extract references and metadata from PDF documents, and download all referenced PDFs DevFeed: [PDFx - Extract references and metadata from PDF documents, and download all referenced PDFs]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Chris Hager Published: 2026-09-17T02:48:44.791916Z Content type: tutorial Language: en Sources: [Chris Hager]() Topics: [pdf](), [Python](), [Command-line interface](), [JSON](), [pip](), [Open Source](), [GitHub]() Tags: [apache](), [broken-links](), [command-line](), [download](), [github](), [install](), [json](), [library](), [open-source](), [pdf](), [python]() ### AI overview PDFx is an Apache-licensed open-source tool that extracts references and metadata from PDF documents. It detects PDF, URL, arXiv, and DOI references, can download referenced PDFs in parallel, identify broken hyperlinks, extract PDF text, and output results as text or JSON. It is available as a command-line tool and Python package, with support for local and online PDFs. ### Source excerpt Reading over this paper and its references recently, I thought it would be great to be able to download all the references at once... This inspired me to write a little tool to do just that, and now it's done and released under the Apache open source license: https://github.com/metachris/pdfx Features Extract references and metadata from a given PDF Detects pdf, url, arxiv and doi references Fast, parallel download of all referenced PDFs Find broken hyperlinks (using the -c flag) (more) Output as text or JSON (using the -j flag) Extract the PDF text (using the --text flag) Use as command-line tool or Python package Compatible with Python 2 and 3 Works with local and online pdfs Getting Started Grab a copy of pdfx with easy_install or pip and run it: ## Docs on autopilot: From zero to self-maintaining with Mintlify DevFeed: [Docs on autopilot: From zero to self-maintaining with Mintlify]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Peri Langlois Published: 2026-04-03T00:00:00Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [Mintlify Blog]() Topics: [Documentation](), [GitHub](), [API]() Tags: [audits](), [best-practices](), [broken-links](), [changelog](), [deprecated](), [docs](), [documentation](), [feature](), [features](), [generate](), [github](), [pull-request]() ### AI overview Mintlify presents auto-generated documentation and Automations that can create a docs site from a GitHub repository and keep documentation updated as code changes. Automations can sync docs after pushes, generate changelogs, audit documentation, and draft pages for new features. ### Source excerpt How Mintlify's auto-generated docs and automations combine to take documentation from nonexistent to self-maintaining. ## Product Update - July 2023 DevFeed: [Product Update - July 2023]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Joshua Kim Published: 2023-07-31T00:00:00Z Content type: release Language: en Sources: [Mintlify Blog]() Topics: [Documentation](), [Artificial Intelligence](), [AI search](), [API](), [OpenAPI Specification](), [Command-line interface](), [Search engine optimization (SEO)]() Tags: [ai](), [ai-search](), [announcements](), [api](), [article](), [automated](), [broken-links](), [cli](), [documentation](), [improvements](), [openapi](), [product](), [seo](), [update]() ### AI overview Mintlify's July 2023 product update introduced Mintlify Chat for conversational documentation search, GPT-4-powered AI Suggestions for documentation improvements, and automated OpenAPI endpoint documentation. It also added SEO redirects, broken-link detection, and improved link management. ### Source excerpt July brings AI features, autogeneration, and support for broken links to our users. Here's a detailed breakdown of all our latest additions: ## Find broken hyperlinks in a PDF document with PDFx DevFeed: [Find broken hyperlinks in a PDF document with PDFx]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Chris Hager Published: 2016-03-19T00:00:00Z Content type: tutorial Language: en Sources: [Chris Hager]() Topics: [pdf](), [Command-line interface](), [Tool](), [file]() Tags: [broken-links](), [command-line](), [examples](), [file](), [files](), [github](), [pdf](), [pull-requests](), [tool]() ### AI overview This tutorial introduces PDFx, a free command-line tool that extracts references, links, and metadata from PDF files. It shows how PDFx checks PDF URLs and references with HEAD requests and reports broken links with their page numbers. ### Source excerpt PDFx is a free command-line tool to extract references, links and metadata from PDF files. You can also use it to find broken links in a PDF file, using pdfx -c: For each URL and PDF reference, pdfx performs a HEAD request and checks the status code. It there are broken links, PDFx print the link with the page number where the link was found in the original pdf: $ pdfx https://weakdh. ## Checking for broken links on Your Website DevFeed: [Checking for broken links on Your Website]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Tom Published: 2012-09-18T00:00:00Z Content type: tutorial Language: en Sources: [Tomasz Gągor]() Topics: [Website](), [Tool](), [legacy]() Tags: [bash](), [broken-links](), [hugo](), [linkchecker](), [linklint](), [linux](), [testing](), [tools](), [website](), [website-maintenance](), [wget](), [wordpress]() ### AI overview The article reviews wget, linkchecker, and linklint for checking broken links on websites. It compares their ease of use, speed, syntax, features, and reporting, noting that wget is readily available, linkchecker is slow, and linklint provides useful reports despite unusual syntax. ### Source excerpt Explore tools like wget, linkchecker, and linklint to efficiently find and fix broken links on your website, from small personal pages to large legacy platforms.