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Adjust max concurrency and user agent in lychee.toml #910

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Adjust max concurrency and user agent in lychee.toml
willingc Jun 24, 2026
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Add exclusion for neonscience.org in lychee.toml
willingc Jun 24, 2026
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Disable internal link check for pyopensci.org
willingc Jun 24, 2026
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Clean up exclude list in lychee.toml
willingc Jun 24, 2026
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Merge branch 'main' into willingc-patch-3
willingc Jun 24, 2026
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Expand Up @@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ cache_exclude_status = "500.."

############################# Runtime ##############################

max_concurrency = 14
# Reduce concurrency since lychee can check 500+ links in 1 minute with 1 worker
max_concurrency = 1
max_redirects = 10
max_retries = 2
# Wait longer between retries to give slow servers room to recover.
Expand All @@ -37,8 +38,9 @@ timeout = 45

############################# Requests #############################

# Some sites block lychee's default UA. Use a generic browser-ish UA.
user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; lychee-link-checker)"
# Some sites block lychee's default user agent (curl). Use a generic browser.
user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"


# Accept 200–403 as success. 401/403 are common on bot-protected or
# auth-walled pages we still want to consider "reachable".
Expand All @@ -59,8 +61,6 @@ include_verbatim = false

# Regex excludes. Plain-domain skips belong in .lycheeignore.
exclude = [
'https://(www\.)?neonscience\.org/.*',
'zenodo\.org',
# Self-references to the deployed site lag the build, producing false
# 404s for new pages. Internal links are validated via relative paths.
'^https?://(www\.)?pyopensci\.org/',
]
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