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Broken Links Found in Documentation #587

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Link Check Report

🚨 2 broken link(s) and 1 redirect(s) were found in the documentation.

Details:

  • Repository: QuantEcon/lecture-python-programming
  • Workflow: Link Checker [Anaconda, Linux]
  • Run ID: 30313863330
  • Commit: 5816589
  • Branch: main
  • Date: 2026-07-27T23:29:28.432Z

Link Check Summary

  • Total broken links: 2
  • Total redirects found: 1

Broken Links

_site/pandas.html - 2 broken link(s):
❌ https://fred.stlouisfed.org/ - Status: 0 (Timeout)
Link text: FRED
❌ https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE - Status: 0 (Timeout)
Link text: unemployment rate

_site/workspace.html - 1 redirect(s):
🔄 https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/collaborating-with-pull-requests/proposing-changes-to-your-work-with-pull-requests/about-pull-requests -> https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/reference/pull-requests (1 redirects)

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_site/workspace.html - AI Suggestions:
🤖 https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/collaborating-with-pull-requests/proposing-changes-to-your-work-with-pull-requests/about-pull-requests
Issue: Redirected 1 times
💡 redirect_update: https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/reference/pull-requests
Reason: Update to final destination to avoid 1 redirect(s)


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  1. Review the broken links listed above
  2. Update or remove broken links from the source files
  3. Consider applying AI suggestions for better alternatives
  4. Re-run the link check to verify fixes

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Please close this issue once all broken links have been addressed.

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  1. added
    bugSomething is wrong or broken in a lecture or build
    documentationRepo docs and contributor meta (not lecture content)
    broken-linksLink checker found dead links
    on Jul 27, 2026
  2. mmcky commented on Aug 3, 2026

    @mmcky
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    The genuine finding here — the stale GitHub docs URL in lectures/workspace.md — is fixed and merged in #590.

    The two FRED links reported as broken are false positives and need no change in this repo. Both return 200 in well under a second from a normal network; the 0 (Timeout) status is FRED throttling GitHub Actions runner IPs. They are already whitelisted for Sphinx in lectures/_config.yml under linkcheck_ignore, but the link checker scans built HTML and never sees that configuration.

    The durable fix belongs in the action. Tracked upstream in QuantEcon/action-link-checker#2, which requests an ignore-patterns input plus deduplication so a recurring finding updates one issue rather than opening a new one each week. Duplicates #555, #556, #559, #564, #565, #567, #571 and #583 were closed in favour of this one.

    Note that until that upstream change lands, the weekly cron will keep filing this report — and it will grow to four FRED links once a release includes the Polars lecture, which carries the same URL.

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