Anyone know of anything that will check for dead youtube vids on your site?
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Anyone know of anything that will check for dead youtube vids on your site?
eh? you mean to check weather the link is still up or the vid? unless you have tons of youtube vids embedded to your website, then you can check them manually, I guess.
I remember there are some free online services which can check in and outbound links of your website but I don't know if they are able to check youtube vids.
What error code does a dead YouTube video return?
I wonder if Xenu Link Sleuth would work. It's a great tool for identifying dead links.
From testing on the urls in some html pages with dead youtube vids embedded, I haven't encountered any 404s on dead links when I put the link in my browser. If the vid was removed youtube sends a 302 and then 303 See Other, at least for a vid that was removed by the user.Quote:
Originally Posted by Will.Spencer
You can look with Live Http Headers. http://youtube.com/watch?v=HvqYV4gbH3Q
I get 404's using the youtube api / developer kit though with getVideoEntry().
Truth is I've started working on a script that will find dead vid links and report them but not sure if it's worth continuing if there's already a bunch of scripts that do this. I've been able to find any though.