diff --git a/Doc/conf.py b/Doc/conf.py
index d89470973dacad..851b473108d15c 100644
--- a/Doc/conf.py
+++ b/Doc/conf.py
@@ -251,6 +251,24 @@
r'https://github.com/python/cpython/tree/.*': 'https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/.*'
}
+linkcheck_anchors_ignore = [
+ # ignore anchors that start with a '/', e.g. Wikipedia media files:
+ # https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walrus#/media/File:Pacific_Walrus_-_Bull_(8247646168).jpg
+ r'\/.*',
+]
+
+linkcheck_ignore = [
+ # The crawler gets "Anchor not found"
+ r'https://developer.apple.com/documentation/.+?#.*',
+ r'https://devguide.python.org.+?/#.*',
+ r'https://github.com.+?#.*',
+ # Robot crawlers not allowed: "403 Client Error: Forbidden"
+ r'https://support.enthought.com/hc/.*',
+ # SSLError CertificateError, even though it is valid
+ r'https://unix.org/version2/whatsnew/lp64_wp.html',
+]
+
+
# Options for extensions
# ----------------------
diff --git a/Doc/distributing/index.rst b/Doc/distributing/index.rst
index 136cf4e77b1543..8e70c24e70266d 100644
--- a/Doc/distributing/index.rst
+++ b/Doc/distributing/index.rst
@@ -130,14 +130,10 @@ involved in creating and publishing a project:
* `Uploading the project to the Python Package Index`_
* `The .pypirc file`_
-.. _Project structure: \
- https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/packaging-projects/#packaging-python-projects
-.. _Building and packaging the project: \
- https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/packaging-projects/#creating-the-package-files
-.. _Uploading the project to the Python Package Index: \
- https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/packaging-projects/#uploading-the-distribution-archives
-.. _The .pypirc file: \
- https://packaging.python.org/specifications/pypirc/
+.. _Project structure: https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/packaging-projects/#packaging-python-projects
+.. _Building and packaging the project: https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/packaging-projects/#creating-the-package-files
+.. _Uploading the project to the Python Package Index: https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/packaging-projects/#uploading-the-distribution-archives
+.. _The .pypirc file: https://packaging.python.org/specifications/pypirc/
How do I...?
diff --git a/Doc/faq/library.rst b/Doc/faq/library.rst
index a9cde456575020..597caaa778e1c8 100644
--- a/Doc/faq/library.rst
+++ b/Doc/faq/library.rst
@@ -780,7 +780,7 @@ socket to :meth:`select.select` to check if it's writable.
The :mod:`asyncio` module provides a general purpose single-threaded and
concurrent asynchronous library, which can be used for writing non-blocking
network code.
- The third-party `Twisted `_ library is
+ The third-party `Twisted `_ library is
a popular and feature-rich alternative.
diff --git a/Doc/howto/functional.rst b/Doc/howto/functional.rst
index e68bc2ebb1cc82..64f2293b21e2ee 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/functional.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/functional.rst
@@ -1208,8 +1208,8 @@ General
-------
**Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs**, by Harold Abelson and
-Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman. Full text at
-https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/. In this classic textbook of computer science,
+Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman. The book can be found at
+https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp. In this classic textbook of computer science,
chapters 2 and 3 discuss the use of sequences and streams to organize the data
flow inside a program. The book uses Scheme for its examples, but many of the
design approaches described in these chapters are applicable to functional-style
diff --git a/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst b/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst
index 69af3c3a85c5d6..61ba6bd7224fcc 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ response::
import urllib.request
- req = urllib.request.Request('http://www.voidspace.org.uk')
+ req = urllib.request.Request('http://python.org/')
with urllib.request.urlopen(req) as response:
the_page = response.read()
@@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ To illustrate creating and installing a handler we will use the
``HTTPBasicAuthHandler``. For a more detailed discussion of this subject --
including an explanation of how Basic Authentication works - see the `Basic
Authentication Tutorial
-`_.
+`__.
When authentication is required, the server sends a header (as well as the 401
error code) requesting authentication. This specifies the authentication scheme
diff --git a/Doc/library/readline.rst b/Doc/library/readline.rst
index 4d485d25b54020..8fb0eca8df74d8 100644
--- a/Doc/library/readline.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/readline.rst
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ function.
Readline keybindings may be configured via an initialization file, typically
``.inputrc`` in your home directory. See `Readline Init File
-`_
+`_
in the GNU Readline manual for information about the format and
allowable constructs of that file, and the capabilities of the
Readline library in general.
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
index 34f2656f765c7d..4ee2aacb108a36 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ this edition of "What's New in Python" links to the bug/patch
item for each change.
Hosting of the Python bug tracker is kindly provided by
-`Upfront Systems `__
+`Upfront Systems `__
of Stellenbosch, South Africa. Martin von Löwis put a
lot of effort into importing existing bugs and patches from
SourceForge; his scripts for this import operation are at
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst
index 82f5ea3b31275b..1acb09cf925716 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst
@@ -2103,7 +2103,7 @@ Changes to Python's build process and to the C API include:
* The latest release of the GNU Debugger, GDB 7, can be `scripted
using Python
- `__.
+ `__.
When you begin debugging an executable program P, GDB will look for
a file named ``P-gdb.py`` and automatically read it. Dave Malcolm
contributed a :file:`python-gdb.py` that adds a number of
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.7.0b2.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.7.0b2.rst
index b2ade206bd5f97..9590914599bb86 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.7.0b2.rst
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.7.0b2.rst
@@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ Wirtel
Add TLSVersion constants and SSLContext.maximum_version / minimum_version
attributes. The new API wraps OpenSSL 1.1
-https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.1.0/ssl/SSL_CTX_set_min_proto_version.html
+https://web.archive.org/web/20180309043602/https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.1.0/ssl/SSL_CTX_set_min_proto_version.html
feature.
..
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.8.0a1.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.8.0a1.rst
index d95055a59da328..c9ca4b8404e67f 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.8.0a1.rst
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.8.0a1.rst
@@ -5951,7 +5951,7 @@ Wirtel
Add TLSVersion constants and SSLContext.maximum_version / minimum_version
attributes. The new API wraps OpenSSL 1.1
-https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.1.0/ssl/SSL_CTX_set_min_proto_version.html
+https://web.archive.org/web/20180309043602/https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.1.0/ssl/SSL_CTX_set_min_proto_version.html
feature.
..
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.0a1.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.0a1.rst
index 63d77fd3ac0c3d..2525696c58a4d1 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.0a1.rst
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.0a1.rst
@@ -4887,7 +4887,7 @@ Fix use of registry values to launch Python from Microsoft Store app.
.. section: Windows
Fix memory leak on Windows in creating an SSLContext object or running
-urllib.request.urlopen('https://...').
+``urllib.request.urlopen('https://...')``.
..
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.0a2.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.0a2.rst
index 226ea0d3df2243..a03eb10f1d523a 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.0a2.rst
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.0a2.rst
@@ -686,7 +686,7 @@ added.
Update documentation to state that to activate virtual environments under
fish one should use `source`, not `.` as documented at
-https://fishshell.com/docs/current/commands.html#source.
+https://fishshell.com/docs/current/cmds/source.html.
..
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.0a4.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.0a4.rst
index 2aef8b26b01696..019b34c4082d10 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.0a4.rst
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.0a4.rst
@@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ The distutils ``bdist_msi`` command is deprecated in Python 3.9, use
Improved performance of zipfile.Path for files with a large number of
entries. Also improved performance and fixed minor issue as published with
`importlib_metadata 1.5
-`_.
+`_.
..