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Fastest way to fix 1000s of broken links in HTML file

MetalMan390

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I have a website that has, spread throughout about 15 pages, about 7500 hyperlinks. I have combined all links to one php file and uploaded it to my server so that I could check all backlinks at once (used Xenu). Of these links, about 35% are dead. Most of these dead links (1900+) are listed as "not found". I did some poking around with the links manually, and some of the "not found" links can be "fixed" by deleting the trailing directory/path within the URL or by reverting to the TLD. Some of the sites though and of course there is no saving these links.

I would like to fix as many of these links as I can in the fastest way possible. I don't want to spend a week going through thousands of links, manually "adjusting" the URL of each site, and deleting the links belonging to dead sites.

Anyone have any ideas on how I can accomplish this? Maybe regex and scrapebox? I am not good with regex though...
 
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