Gatsby: 404 on events page because of missing https in airtable entries

[muescha]

Description

there are missing https:// in the connected airtable in the events table
for listing events on page: https://www.gatsbyjs.org/contributing/events/

option a

fixing data in the airtable

option b

add a check for the https to the link in www/src/components/events/event.js

Link 1

https://www.gatsbyjs.org/contributing/events/karunyahacks.org

BULD HACKATHON — November 17, 2019 (Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India)

Link 2

https://www.gatsbyjs.org/contributing/events/nosk.ncit.edu.np

Software Freedom Day — September 21, 2019 (Balkumari, Lalitpur, Nepal)

Link 3

https://www.gatsbyjs.org/contributing/events/wizathon.in

Software Freedom Day — September 21, 2019 (Balkumari, Lalitpur, Nepal)

Link 4

https://www.gatsbyjs.org/contributing/events/www.startupweekend.com

Startup Weekend Youth Edition — November 15, 2019 (Dubai,United Arab Emirates)

Steps to reproduce

go to page: https://www.gatsbyjs.org/contributing/events/

Expected result

no error

Actual result

error 404

Environment

related Issues

19267 Add link check To Gatsby Docs

[muescha]

more links broken on this site:

• https://www.meetup.com/es-ES/Rockstar-JavaScript-Barcelona/events/260615768
  FREE - Intro to Gatsby.js: Create lightning speed static webpages — May 8, 2019 (Barcelona, Spain)
• https://www.eventbrite.com/e/state-of-drupal-9-using-drupal-and-gatsby-wunder-tech-meetup-tickets-62198670899
  Wunder tech meetup - State of Drupal 9 & Using Drupal and Gatsby — June 17, 2019 (Helsinki, Finland)
• http://arcs.ieeecsvit.com/%20(We%20are%20currently%20working%20on%20the%20present%20years's%20website)
  ARCS — March 27, 2020 (Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India (Country is outside US))

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[muescha]

checked: bugs still exists.

someone here with access to the airtable table to fix the entries there?

[muescha]

there are some new broken links in beetween the 12 broken links:

• missing http:// in link:
  https://www.gatsbyjs.org/contributing/events/xperion.ieeesbnssce.org
  https://www.gatsbyjs.org/contributing/events/www.startupweekend.com
  https://www.gatsbyjs.org/contributing/events/www.hackbmu.com
  https://www.gatsbyjs.org/contributing/events/wizathon.in
  https://www.gatsbyjs.org/contributing/events/nosk.ncit.edu.np
  https://www.gatsbyjs.org/contributing/events/karunyahacks.org
  https://www.gatsbyjs.org/contributing/events/hack.macehub.in

• malformed link:
  http://arcs.ieeecsvit.com/%20(We%20are%20currently%20working%20on%20the%20present%20years's%20website)

• website 404:
  https://www.meetup.com/es-ES/Rockstar-JavaScript-Barcelona/events/260615768
  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/state-of-drupal-9-using-drupal-and-gatsby-wunder-tech-meetup-tickets-62198670899
  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/84398059869
  https://trailblazercommunitygroups.com/e/m2mjcq

• other error
  https://www.hackbout.me
  http://hackdotslash.co.in
  https://hackdotslash.co.in
  http://www.octahacks.tech

ping to @gatsbyjs/core @gatsbyjs/learning

at least the links with missing http:// we can fix in the table

[gillkyle]

Thanks for the research investigating this and the ping @muescha! I'll go in now and update the links missing the http:// protocol on Airtable. I do like the idea of finding a better check for urls!

update: just went through and corrected the links for those that were missing http or https by navigating to those sites. I'm guessing the malformed links have come from events changing titles and urls.

[muescha]

this link can also fixed in the airtable:

• from: http://arcs.ieeecsvit.com/%20(We%20are%20currently%20working%20on%20the%20present%20years's%20website)
  to http://arcs.ieeecsvit.com/
• from: nosk.ncit.edu.np
  to: https://nosk.ncit.edu.np
  (this link is still not active, but then it not looks like a gatsby error)

[gillkyle]

I updated the http://arcs.ieeecsvit.com site and removed entries for urls that were resulting in 404s if they were already past so it doesn't negatively affect the page's SEO.

I also updated the airtable request form with more context to instruct users to include the scheme (http or https) as well as an example so that hopefully most won't input a broken link in the future.

I think those measures should allow us to close this for now. If it's still coming up in the future we can enforce better validation but for now I think this gets the job done. Thanks for the help @muescha!