discolinks 0.4.0

Command-line tool which checks a website for broken links.

discolinks

Discolinks looks for broken links on a website.

Features:

• Starts on one page and recursively finds the other reachable pages on the website.
• Asynchronous: Maximum number of parallel requests is configurable.
• JSON output available: Useful for testing and scripting.

Getting Started

$ discolinks --url https://example.net
📂 Results: 13 links (10 ok, 3 failed)
├── 📄 https://example.net/foo
│   ├── 🔗 /bad_absolute_href: 302 → 404
│   └── 🔗 bad_relative_href: 404
└── 📄 https://example.net/bar
    └── 🔗 https://example.org/bad_external_href: Connection error

Development

... # Activate a virtualenv.
uv sync
make check

Release

• Create a branch with a name like release-1.2.3.
• Update version in src/discolinks/__version__.py.
• Update version in pyproject.toml.
• Update changelog.
• Open a pull request and get it merged.
• Tag the release git tag --message 'Version 1.2.3' 1.2.3
• Push tags: git push --tags