LinkChecker 9.4.0

check links in web documents or full websites

Check for broken links in web sites.

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

• restrict link checking with regular expression filters for URLs

• proxy support

• username/password authorization for HTTP, FTP and Telnet

• honors robots.txt exclusion protocol

• Cookie support

• HTML5 support

• a command line and web interface

• various check plugins available, eg. HTML syntax and antivirus checks.

Installation

See doc/install.txt in the source code archive. Python 2.7.2 or later is needed. It doesn’t work with Python 3 yet, see #40 for details.

pip install linkchecker should NOT be used for now, as it will install the old version of linkchecker. See #4.

Usage

Execute linkchecker http://www.example.com. For other options see linkchecker --help.

Docker usage

If you do not want to install any additional libraries/dependencies you can use the Docker image.

Example for external web site check: ` docker run --rm -it -u $(id -u):$(id -g) linkchecker/linkchecker --verbose https://google.com `

Local HTML file check: ` docker run --rm -it -u $(id -u):$(id -g) -v "$PWD":/mnt linkchecker/linkchecker --verbose index.html `