Dead_Link_Checker

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Dead Link Checker (Release 0.1)

About DLChecker

This repository is a command-line tool to find and report a dead URL status in a file. This tool can help users to check the broken link and show the list of broken links.

Features

• Searching for the URLs in the input files
• Checking multiple URLs by typing URL in the command line
• Organizing links each working and broken URLs
• Providing [Help] option to show users how to use this tool
• Showing unknown URLs which have status code(not 200 and 400~599), error, or long loading (1.5 seconds timeout)

Optional Features

• Starting an argument with -v/-V can be supplied to the program for current version information.
• Printing good status[200] URLs with green colour and bad status[400,404] URLs with red colour

Getting Started

1. Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/sonechca/Dead_Link_Checker.git

2. The DLChecker file in the DEAD_LINK_CHECKER folder on the command line

cd DEAD_LINK_CHECKER

3. Install library

pip3 install requests
pip3 install coloarama

4. DLChecker run command

python3 DLChecker.py <filename> or <URL>

Help/Usage

Users can call the help/usage box if they do not know how to use this tool.

python3 DLChecker.py (blank) or python3 DLChecker.py -h/-H

Library

• Requests
  • Requests is an elegant and simple HTTP library for Python, built for human beings.
  • Requests allows you to send HTTP/1.1 requests extremely easily.
  • User can check the response status code

     >>> r = requests.get('https://httpbin.org/get')
     >>> r.status_code
     200
  

Issues

• Colouring in CMD not work #1
• Use the correct python way when checking for empty/non-empty lists #2
• The current version of the tool cannot read the redirect status code(303, 308). The tool is recognizing that redirect is an error exception
• After the install of requests. I think you should include another line reminding the user to also download: "Pip3 install colorama"

Solution

• Adding the colorama library to fix error. I used function that contain gray color code to use for unknown URL. Colorama library does not have gray color
• I fixed the condition code to check links list and dead_links list
• I added the comment of installation