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  • Plugin Support Williams – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudev-support8)

    Hi @peterfz30

    I hope you’re well today!

    Since plugin is reporting Instagram link, I believe you are using the “old engine” version (not the new 2.0 scanner) and this is, unfortunately, known and expected issue.

    Some of the services (such as e.g. Instagram but not only) detect such checks as unwanted bot traffic and are blocking requests. This results in link being reported as broken because plugin cannot really see/check what is happening on the other end – “inside” such service.

    In such cases it’s best to just manually check if reported link is “live” or really broken and if it’s fine – mark it to be ignored.

    This is also why the new engine doesn’t even check such links (for some specific services, including Instagram) – as they are known to be reported as broken and, unfortunately, there’s no workaround for this.

    https://wpmudev.com/docs/wpmu-dev-plugins/broken-link-checker/#scanned-skipped

    Kind regards,
    Adam

    Plugin Support Nithin – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudevsupport11)

    Hi @peterfz30,

    Since we haven’t heard from you for a while. I’ll mark this thread as resolved for now. Please feel free to re-open the thread if you need further assistance.

    Regards
    Nithin

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