Error 503 and broken links reported on valid Amazon links

  • Resolved Manni02

    (@manni02)


    3 years, 8 months ago

    I am getting broken links errors (503 service unavailable) on all my valid amazon links, such as this one:

    If I report the links as not broken, they come back the next time.

    Any idea why?

    EDIT: interestingly this shows as an unavailable kindle preview when you click on this, probably why. What would be the correct way to link to such a page then? There is no error when you simply click on the link, even if you check it from broken link checker.

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  • Plugin Support Nithin – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudevsupport11)

    Hi @manni02,

    I’m afraid this is a security layer on the Amazon end and it is not allowing the plugin to Crawl such URL and hence reporting 503/403 errors.

    At the moment, you can exclude the AWS link to be showing up in the list, from Settings > Link Checker > Which Links To Check, and add the URL to the Exclusion list.

    For example, if the URLs are for example:

    amazon.com/abc/image-one
amazon.com/abc/image-two

    You can add the common part of the URL in the exclusions list as:
    amazon.com/abc

    There is already a feature request created for our developers to integrate the plugin with AWS services down the plugin roadmap and I’ll make sure this thread is also brought into our team’s attention.

    Kind Regards,
    Nithin`

    Thread Starter Manni02

    (@manni02)

    Thank you very much for the quick reply and for the workaround.

    Yes it would be great if you could support Amazon links, they must be quite common ??

    I haven’t experienced this before because I was using affiliates links using geni.us, and apparently that way works fine with broken links checker, I never had a false positive with these.

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