pdf-link-checker 1.0.1

Reports broken hyperlinks in PDF documents

pdf-link-checker is a simple tool that parses a PDF document and checks for broken hyperlinks. This done by sending a simple HTTP request to each link found in a given document.

Getting it running

pip install pdf-link-checker
pdf-link-checker my-awesome-slides.pdf

Options

• –max-threads

  Specifies the maximum number of allowed threads (default: 100).

  To speedup the run, pdf-linkchecker will launch several threads in order to check several links in parallel. This option allows to set a limit to the number of threads.

• –max-requests-per-host

  Specifies the maximum number of allowed requests per host.

  Some URLs may belong to the same host, and since pdf-link-checker can check many URLs at the same time, we may want to set a limit to the number of requests per host. Otherwise, some hosts may confuse the check with a DoS attack.

TODO

(…because there’s no active project without a TODO list!)

• Fix: Make it understand mailto links (such as mailto:[e-mail]’).

• Fix: some documents are failing on doc.initialize().

Version History

1.0

• Initial release