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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+import httplib2
+import re
+import socket
+import sys
+
+
+def parse_links(filename):
+    """Returns a list of URLs from text file"""
+    with open(filename, mode='r', encoding='utf-8') as fp:
+        readme = fp.read()
+        index_section = readme.find('## Index')
+        content = readme[index_section:]
+
+    raw_links = re.findall(
+        '((?:https?://|www\d{0,3}[.]|[a-z0-9.\-]+[.][a-z]{2,4}/)(?:[^\s()<>]+|\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\))+(?:\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\)|[^\s`!()\[\]{};:\'\".,<>?«»“”‘’]))',
+        content)
+
+    links = [
+        str(raw_link[0]).rstrip('/') for raw_link in raw_links
+    ]
+
+    return links
+
+def dup_links(links):
+    """Check for duplicated links"""
+    print(f'Checking for duplicated links...')
+    hasError = False
+    seen = {}
+    dupes = []
+
+    for link in links:
+        if link not in seen:
+            seen[link] = 1
+        else:
+            if seen[link] == 1:
+                dupes.append(link)
+
+    if not dupes:
+        print(f"No duplicate links")
+    else:
+        print(f"Found duplicate links: {dupes}")  
+        hasError = True  
+    return hasError
+
+def validate_links(links):
+    """Checks each entry in JSON file for live link"""
+    print(f'Validating {len(links)} links...')
+    hasError = False
+    for link in links:
+        h = httplib2.Http(disable_ssl_certificate_validation=True, timeout=25)
+        try:
+            # fetching host name, removing leading www
+            host = link.split('//', 1)[1].split('/', 1)[0]
+            if host[:3] == 'www':
+                host = host[4:]
+                
+            resp = h.request(link + "/", headers={
+                # Faking user agent as some hosting services block not-whitelisted UA
+                'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/28.0.1467.0 Safari/537.36',
+                # setting host because Cloudflare returns 403 asking for captcha if host is missing
+                'host': host
+            })
+            code = int(resp[0]['status'])
+            # Checking status code errors
+            if (code >= 400):
+                hasError = True
+                print(f"ERR:CLT:{code} : {link}")
+        except TimeoutError:
+            hasError = True
+            print(f"ERR:TMO: {link}")
+        except socket.error as socketerror:
+            hasError = True
+            print(f"ERR:SOC: {socketerror} : {link}")
+        except Exception as e:
+            hasError = True
+            # Ignore some exceptions which are not actually errors.
+            # The list below should be extended with other exceptions in the future if needed
+            if (-1 != str(e).find("[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:852)")):
+                print(f"ERR:SSL: {e} : {link}")
+            elif (-1 != str(e).find("Content purported to be compressed with gzip but failed to decompress.")):
+                print(f"ERR:GZP: {e} : {link}")
+            elif (-1 != str(e).find("Unable to find the server at")):
+                print(f"ERR:SRV: {e} : {link}")
+            else:
+                print(f"ERR:UKN: {e} : {link}")
+    return hasError
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    num_args = len(sys.argv)
+    if num_args < 2:
+        print("No .md file passed")
+        sys.exit(1)
+    links = parse_links(sys.argv[1])
+    hasError = dup_links(links)
+    if not hasError:
+        hasError = validate_links(links)
+    if hasError:
+        sys.exit(1)
+
+#test
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