Check links on PRs and Update main build script

build/validate_links.py

@@ -1,32 +1,26 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 
 import httplib2
-import json
+import re
 import socket
 import sys
 
 
 def parse_links(filename):
-    """Returns a list of links from JSON object"""
-    data = json.load(open(filename))
-    links = []
-    for entry in data['entries']:
-        link = entry['Link']
-        https = True if link.startswith('https') else False
-        x = {
-            'link': link,
-            'https': https,
-        }
-        links.append(x)
+    """Returns a list of URLs from text file"""
+    with open(filename) as fp:
+        data = fp.read()
+    raw_links = re.findall( \
+            'http[s]?://(?:[a-zA-Z]|[0-9]|[$-_@.&+]|[!*\(\),]|(?:%[0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F]))+', \
+            data)
+    links = [raw_link.replace(')', '') for raw_link in raw_links]
     return links
 
-
 def validate_links(links):
     """Checks each entry in JSON file for live link"""
     print('Validating {} links...'.format(len(links)))
     errors = []
-    for each in links:
-        link = each['link']
+    for link in links:
         h = httplib2.Http(disable_ssl_certificate_validation=True, timeout=5)
         try:
             resp = h.request(link, 'HEAD')
@@ -43,7 +37,7 @@ def validate_links(links):
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     num_args = len(sys.argv)
     if num_args < 2:
-        print("No .json file passed")
+        print("No .md file passed")
         sys.exit(1)
     errors = validate_links(parse_links(sys.argv[1]))
     if len(errors) > 0: