Increase performance of checkLink.ts

checkLink.ts

@@ -1,61 +1,59 @@
 const axios = require("axios");
 
+const ignoredCodes: Set<number> = new Set([
+  999, 
+  429, 
+  403, 
+  401
+]);
+
+const ignoredURLs: Set<string> = new Set([
+  'example.com',
+  'www.example.com',
+  'example.org',
+  'www.example.org',
+  'goo.gl',
+  'fonts.googleapis.com',
+  'fonts.gstatic.com'
+]);
+
+const params: object = {
+  headers: {
+    "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8",
+    "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate, br",
+    "Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.5",
+    "Sec-Fetch-Dest": "document",
+    "Sec-Fetch-Mode": "navigate",
+    "Sec-Fetch-Site": "cross-site",
+    "Sec-Fetch-User": "?1",
+    "Upgrade-Insecure-Requests": "1",
+    "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:121.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/121.0",
+    "X-Amzn-Trace-Id": "Root=1-659f58c5-4de24ef7384486270161f185"
+  },
+};
+
 // Return true if link is broken
 export async function checkLink(link: string): Promise<boolean> {
-  const ignoredCodes: Set<number> = new Set([
-    999, 
-    429, 
-    403, 
-    401
-  ]);
-
-  const ignoredURLs: Set<string> = new Set([
-    'example.com',
-    'www.example.com',
-    'example.org',
-    'www.example.org',
-    'goo.gl',
-    'fonts.googleapis.com',
-    'fonts.gstatic.com'
-  ]);
-
   const url = new URL(link);
-  if (ignoredURLs.has(url.host)) {
+  if (ignoredURLs.has(url.host))
     return false;
-  }
-
-  const params: object = {
-    headers: {
-      "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8",
-      "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate, br",
-      "Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.5",
-      "Sec-Fetch-Dest": "document",
-      "Sec-Fetch-Mode": "navigate",
-      "Sec-Fetch-Site": "cross-site",
-      "Sec-Fetch-User": "?1",
-      "Upgrade-Insecure-Requests": "1",
-      "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:121.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/121.0",
-      "X-Amzn-Trace-Id": "Root=1-659f58c5-4de24ef7384486270161f185"
-    },
-  };
 
   try {
-    const response = await axios.get(link, params);
-    const finalUrl = new URL(response.request.res.responseUrl); // Get the final URL after any redirects
-
-    if (ignoredURLs.has(finalUrl.host)) {
-      return false;
-    }
+    await axios.head(link, params);
+    return false;
   } catch (err: any) {
-    // If false positive, return false
-    if (ignoredCodes.has(err.response.status)) {
-      return false;
+    // Head request is not allowed, make get request
+    if (err.response.status === "405") {
+      try {
+        await axios.get(link, params);
+        return false;
+      } catch {}
     }
 
-    // If HEAD is not allowed try GET (not needed since we're using GET)
-
+    // If false positive, return false
+    if (ignoredCodes.has(err.response.status))
+      return false;
+
     return true;
   }
-
-  return false;
 }