Hi all! Recently I found some older pages on my site which had outdated links. But, these links weren't going to 404 pages -- they were going to porn pages! Their domain names had lapsed, and some naughty sites snapped them up. It is a Bad Thing (tm) when your state newspaper's site has links to porn.

So, I'm writing a link checker which will scan all the pages on the site for external links, download each page with LWP, and attempt to scan for inappropriate stuff. I can then make it output a list of questionable pages which can be checked by a human.

To start, I'll probably use TheDamian's Regexp::Common $RE{profanity}. Then, I'll try to scan for other words/phrases commonly associated with naughty sites - qr{\b(xxx|porn|warez|sheep)\b}.

Does anyone else have some good ideas on how to make this program a little more robust in its search, without returning too many misses?

In reply to Checking external links for inappropriate content by joealba

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