Check websites for broken links (original) (raw)
Introduction
LinkChecker is a free, GPLlicensed website validator. LinkChecker checks links in web documents or full websites. It runs on Python 2 systems, requiring Python 2.7.2 or later. Python 3 is not yet supported.
Features
- recursive and multithreaded checking and site crawling
- output in colored or normal text, HTML, SQL, CSV, XML or a sitemap graph in different formats
- HTTP/1.1, HTTPS, FTP, mailto:, news:, nntp:, Telnet and local file links support
- restriction of link checking with regular expression filters for URLs
- proxy support
- username/password authorization for HTTP and FTP and Telnet
- honors robots.txt exclusion protocol
- Cookie support
- HTML5 support
- Plugin support allowing custom page checks. Currently available are HTML and CSS syntax checks, Antivirus checks, and more.
- Different interfaces: command line, GUI and web interface
- ... and a lot more check options documented in themanual page.
Screenshots
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Basic usage
To check a URL like http://www.example.org/myhomepage/ it is enough to enter http://www.example.org/myhomepage/ in the GUI client or web interface, or executelinkchecker http://www.example.org/myhomepage/ on the command line.
This check will validate recursively all pages starting withhttp://www.example.org/myhomepage/. Additionally, all external links pointing outside of www.example.org will be checked but not recursed into.
Other linkcheckers
If this software does not fit your requirements, you can check outother free linkcheckers.
Test suite status
Linkchecker has extensive unit tests to ensure code quality.Travis CI is used for continuous build and test integration.
