# Offiziellecharts.de – links broken

**URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/offiziellecharts-de-links-broken/703753
**Category:** MusicBrainz
**Tags:** external-link, musicbrainz
**Created:** [July 8, 2024, 7:41am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/offiziellecharts-de-links-broken/703753 "2024-07-08T07:41:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![peterhbg](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/peterhbg/32/35838_2.png) [@peterhbg](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/peterhbg)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2024, 7:41am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/offiziellecharts-de-links-broken/703753/1 "2024-07-08T07:41:23Z")

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[offiziellecharts.de](http://offiziellecharts.de) has changed its URL structure. So all the external links to this whitelisted site are broken.

They only added a “/charts” in the URL, f. e.  
old: ~.offiziellecharts.de/album-details-483945  
new: ~.offiziellecharts.de/charts/album-details-483945

Is there a chance to change all external links to this site at once? Must be several thousands …

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### Author: ![reosarevok](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/reosarevok/32/69228_2.png) [@reosarevok](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/reosarevok)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2024, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/offiziellecharts-de-links-broken/703753/2 "2024-07-08T12:19:08Z")

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How does a large organization do this and not even leave a redirect behind in 2024 🤦‍♂️

I will work on this: [MBS-13684](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-13684) / [MBBE-88](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBBE-88)

> [@peterhbg](#):
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> Is there a chance to change all external links to this site at once? Must be several thousands …

Around four thousand, yes. Will do it with a bot.

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### Author: ![yvanzo](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/yvanzo/32/2864_2.png) [@yvanzo](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/yvanzo)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2024, 5:00pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/offiziellecharts-de-links-broken/703753/3 "2024-07-08T17:00:16Z")

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Thanks for mentioning. I just reported it to them by mail as there isn’t much documentation about their link format on their website.

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### Author: ![chaban](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/chaban/32/111349_2.png) [@chaban](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/chaban)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2024, 11:38am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/offiziellecharts-de-links-broken/703753/4 "2024-07-10T11:38:51Z")

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GfK Entertainment replied. URLs should redirect now

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### Author: ![peterhbg](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/peterhbg/32/35838_2.png) [@peterhbg](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/peterhbg)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2024, 5:04pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/offiziellecharts-de-links-broken/703753/5 "2024-07-11T17:04:50Z")

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Really great, thank you!

Now: Could the new format also be whitelisted as external database?

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### Author: ![yvanzo](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/yvanzo/32/2864_2.png) [@yvanzo](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/yvanzo)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2024, 7:27pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/offiziellecharts-de-links-broken/703753/6 "2024-07-11T19:27:36Z")

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> [@peterhbg](#):
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> Could the new format also be whitelisted as external database?

Yes, @reosarevok prepared a code change for this purpose already. Start watching [MBS-13684](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-13684) if you want to be notified of progress.