outlink-extractor

A small Python tool to quickly extract outbound links from any given URL and export them into a CSV file.

Developed by: Amal Alexander
Email: amalalex95@gmail.com

Features

• Simple CLI command.
• Fetches a web page and parses all <a> tags.
• Filters only external (outbound) links.
• Exports results to outlink.csv (or a custom file name) in the current directory.

Each row in the CSV contains:

• href – Absolute URL of the outbound link
• anchor_text – Cleaned anchor text
• rel – rel attribute value (if present)
• target – target attribute value (if present)

Installation

You can install it locally from the source:

pip install .

Or, if you have the ZIP file:

pip install outlink-extractor.zip

(Replace with the actual path to your ZIP.)

Usage

After installation, run from your terminal:

outlink-extractor https://example.com

This will create outlink.csv in the current directory.

You can also specify a custom output file:

outlink-extractor https://example.com -o my-outlinks.csv

Notes

• Requires Python 3.8+
• Uses requests and beautifulsoup4 under the hood.
• Intended for quick SEO checks, audits, and outbound link analysis.