Check-That-Link 1.0.0

Command-line tool for checking te status of links stored in a file.

checkThatLink

This is a CLI tool used to check an html file for the status of the URL's it contains.

The application requires the path to a file as it's first positional argument.

$ checkThatLink.py [fileName]

The status of the URL will be shown by colour

• Green = good link
• Cyan = secured link
• Red = bad link
• Grey = unknown link

Options

You can also use the optional flag argument -s or --secureHttp to indicate that you want to see if the supplied http URL's will work using https instead.

$ checkThatLink.py [fileName] -s

You can choose to have the output be in JSON format instead of the original output by using the -j or --json flags.

$ checkThatLink.py [fileName] -j

There is also the option to get only good, or bad matches with the corresponding flags:

$ checkThatLink.py [fileName] --good OR --bad

The optional flag argument -i or --ignore with a filepath will load and parse an ignored URLs text file.

$ checkThatLink.py [fileName] -i [ignoreFile]

The format of an ignored URLs text file is as follows:

• URLs must be placed on separate lines and begin with either http or https
• Any line that begins with # is a comment and will not be parsed

To check the status of the 10 latest Telescope posts you can use the -t --telescope optional argument. Doing so will ignore the file given and instead check Telescope.

You must have Telescope's backend running locally in order to use this feature

$ checkThatLink.py [fileName] -t