looks like YouTube may have changed something on their end – i’m receiving regular notifications of busted links
however, after disabling the checks in the old embed code, the problem appears to have stopped
Could you post a couple of example videos? I can’t seem to reproduce the problem on my own site – the old embed code still works and video status is reported correctly.
also another bug – after disabling the old YT embed code check option, i selected all of the broken links and then tried to bulk-recheck them – only the first link in the list is checked
Did you refresh the page after disabling that option? Also, this may sound obvious, but maybe the rest of the links just hadn’t been checked yet?
‘fraid i can’t – none are broken now and i didn’t keep track of them
my guess is that something on their end changed because i haven’t changed any settings in BLC – YT specific settings were:
YouTube API
Embedded YouTube videos
Embedded YouTube videos (old embed code)
Embedded YouTube playlists (old embed code)
Smart YouTube httpv:// URLs
those settings were not touched in quite a while, but only today did the notices start pouring in 🙂
so now they are…
YouTube API
Embedded YouTube videos
and no more notices
if i revert to the old settings and enable logging, might that help you?
regarding the bulk check option, i can’t remember what i did 🙂
i’ll test again given the oppertunity
Be careful with logging, it slows down the plugin and the log file can get very large quickly. It’s best to enable it for a short while – e.g. immediately before rechecking some links – and then disable it afterwards.
if i revert to the old settings and enable logging, might that help you?
It could. If some notices show up again, let me know (with examples, if possible).
i put the settings back to what they were and had logging enabled for a couple hours – nothing (and i didn’t want to re-check all links, especially with logging enabled)
feel free to mark as resolved for now – if i have a problem again, i’ll re-open it 🙂
Lets wait a bit. It might take a day or two before the links are automatically re-checked.
ok – it happened again – 111 YT links broken – these are only links, not embedded videos
here’s a sample link…
<a title="FDA Advisory Against Use of MMS" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqsqH97e2eM" target="_blank">blip on the radar</a>
log…
Link last checked: February 6, 2015
HTTP code: 0
Response time: 15.009 seconds
Final URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIm8fHxqUAM
Redirect count: 0
Instance count: 1
Log: (Using YouTube API)
Error.
Failed to connect to 2607:f8b0:4000:80b::200e: Network is unreachable
Link is broken.
also got a bunch of warnings…
Link last checked: February 6, 2015
HTTP code: 0
Response time: 15.009 seconds
Final URL: https://www.youtube.com/user/MMStestimonials/videos
Redirect count: 0
Instance count: 1
This link has failed 2 times.
This link has been broken for 20 hours.
Log: Failed to connect to 2607:f8b0:4000:80b::200e: Network is unreachable [Error #7]
=== (No response) ===
==========
Severity: Warning
Reason: Connection failures are sometimes caused by high server load or other temporary issues.
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Link is broken.
clicking the ‘recheck’ button produces the same errors, yet these links are (probably all) working
That’s an IPv6 address in the log. Does your server have IPv6 connectivity? The plugin uses a HTTP library that will prefer IPv6 if it’s available. This means that if the server incorrectly claims it has IPv6 support, the plugin might flag all links to sites that actually support IPv6 as broken.
Or it might just be that YouTube’s network is temporarily unreachable from your server’s network.
hi Janis
i have a shared webhost account and have no idea if IPV6 is enabled
it looks like it may have been a temp hiccup – now if i manually click the ‘recheck’ button, the links are marked ok
however, if i bulk re-check all the broken links, only 1 or 2 at a time are added to the work queue, so i don’t know if they’re queued or not
if i bulk re-check the links in the warning tab (20), none are added to the queue AFIK “0 links scheduled for rechecking”
if i go to the BLC settings page, it says “38 URLs in the work queue”
UPDATE: ok, i had BLC set to not run continuously when i’m logged in, but still i think the user should be notified that all links that were bulk re-checked were added to the queue whether they are being checked at that time or not
actually, i had expected the links to start being rechecked as soon as i selected the option to do so whether run continuous is enabled or not – i would think this is the expected behavior ???
so everything is apparently ok other than the queue count not reflecting the number of links i bulk re-checked 🙂
if i bulk re-check the links in the warning tab (20), none are added to the queue AFIK “0 links scheduled for rechecking”
There are a few things that could cause that:
- Some of the links were changed or removed while you had the “Warnings” tab open.
- The links were already scheduled for rechecking. For example, if you bulk re-check 10 links, and then try to bulk re-check the same links again before the plugin has had a chance to check them, you’ll get a zero back. The plugin won’t schedule the same links twice.
actually, i had expected the links to start being rechecked as soon as i selected the option to do so whether run continuous is enabled or not – i would think this is the expected behavior ???
As the re-check message implies, doing a bulk re-check means that links get “scheduled for rechecking”. It doesn’t mean “check these links right now regardless of configuration”.
ok, far as i’m concerned the issue was a non-issue – i’ll let you mark it as resolved
it might be nice to have an option to check links at the time they are set to be re-checked however, or make that the default – i think that is the more expected behavior, especially if the user is adding css styles to broken links and wants the styles to be removed ASAP
have a good one!
