I've finally finished my new #Django module, "django-cool-urls". You can use it to make sure your site never has another outgoing dead link, or just to convert YouTube embeds into proper <video> tags pointing to local files.

Explanatory blog post: https://danielquinn.org/blog/django-cool-urls/

PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/django-cool-urls/

Source code: https://gitlab.com/danielquinn/django-cool-urls

Docs: https://danielquinn.gitlab.io/django-cool-urls/

It's already in use on my own site, but perhaps someone else will find it useful.

@danielquinn This is pretty neat. Have you considered an optional archive.org support? That could trigger an index and link to an exact version in time without storing a copy of the whole page.

@danielquinn yes to both. This is what their mission is.

`https://web.archive.org/save/{URL}`

and

`https://archive.org/wayback/available?url={URL}`

are the API endpoints.

https://archive.org/wayback/available?url=https://danielquinn.org/blog/django-cool-urls/ worked for me (might be cached though)