linkcheckerrc(5)

NAME
linkcheckerrc - configuration file for LinkChecker

DESCRIPTION
linkcheckerrc is the configuration file for LinkChecker. The file is written in an INI-style format.
The default file location is ~/.linkchecker/linkcheckerrc on Unix, %HOMEPATH%\.linkchecker\linkcheckerrc on Windows systems.

SETTINGS

  [checking]

anchors=[0|1]
    Check HTTP anchor references. Default is not to check anchors. This option enables logging of the warning url-anchor-not-found.
    Command line option: --anchors

checkcss=[0|1]
    Check syntax of CSS URLs with the cssutils library, falling back to the W3C online validator if cssutils is not available.
    Command line option: --check-css

checkhtml=[0|1]
    Check syntax of HTML URLs with the HTML tidy library, falling back to the W3C online validator if HTML tidy is not available..
    Command line option: --check-html

clamavconf=filename
    Filename of clamd.conf config file.
    Command line option: none

cookiefile=filename
    Read a file with initial cookie data. The cookie data format is explained in linkchecker(1).
    Command line option: --cookiefile

cookies=[0|1]
    Accept and send HTTP cookies.
    Command line option: --cookies

debugmemory=[0|1]
    When checking finishes, write a memory dump to a temporary file. The memory dump is written both when checking finishes normally and when checking gets canceled.
    The memory dump only works if the python-meliae package is installed. Otherwise a warning is printed to install it.
    Command line option: none

localwebroot=STRING
    When checking absolute URLs inside local files, the given root directory is used as base URL.
    Note that the given directory must have URL syntax, so it must use a slash to join directories instead of a backslash. And the given directory must end with a slash.
    Command line option: none

nntpserver=STRING
    Specify an NNTP server for news: links. Default is the environment variable NNTP_SERVER. If no host is given, only the syntax of the link is checked.
    Command line option: --nntp-server

pause=NUMBER
    Pause the given number of seconds between two subsequent connection requests to the same host.
    Command line option: --pause

recursionlevel=NUMBER
    Check recursively all links up to given depth. A negative depth will enable infinite recursion. Default depth is infinite.
    Command line option: --recursion-level

scanvirus=[0|1]
    Scan content of URLs for viruses with ClamAV.
    Command line option: --scan-virus

threads=NUMBER
    Generate no more than the given number of threads. Default number of threads is 100. To disable threading specify a non-positive number.
    Command line option: --threads

timeout=NUMBER
    Set the timeout for connection attempts in seconds. The default timeout is 60 seconds.
    Command line option: --timeout

useragent=STRING
    Specify the User-Agent string to send to the HTTP server, for example "Mozilla/4.0". The default is "LinkChecker/X.Y" where X.Y is the current version of LinkChecker.
    Command line option: --user-agent

warningregex==REGEX
    Define a regular expression which prints a warning if it matches any content of the checked link. This applies only to valid pages, so we can get their content.
    Use this to check for pages that contain some form of error, for example "This page has moved" or "Oracle Application Server error".
    Command line option: --warning-regex

warnsizebytes=NUMBER
    Print a warning if content size info is available and exceeds the given number of bytes.
    Command line option: --warning-size-bytes

warnsslcertdaysvalid=NUMBER
    Check that SSL certificates are at least the given number of days valid. The number must not be negative. If the number of days is zero a warning is printed only for certificates that are already expired.
    The default number of days is 14.
    Command line option: none

maxrunseconds=NUMBER
    Stop checking new URLs after the given number of seconds. Same as if the user stops (by hitting Ctrl-C or clicking the abort buttin in the GUI) after the given number of seconds.
    The default is not to stop until all URLs are checked.
    Command line option: none

maxnumurls=NUMBER
    Maximum number of URLs to check. New URLs will not be queued after the given number of URLs is checked.
    The default is to queue and check all URLs.
    Command line option: none

  [filtering]

ignore=REGEX (MULTILINE)
    Only check syntax of URLs matching the given regular expressions.
    Command line option: --ignore-url

ignorewarnings=NAME[,NAME...]
    Ignore the comma-separated list of warnings. See WARNIGS for the list of supported warnings.
    Command line option: none

internlinks=REGEX
    Regular expression to add more URLs recognized as internal links. Default is that URLs given on the command line are internal.
    Command line option: none

nofollow=REGEX (MULTILINE)
    Check but do not recurse into URLs matching the given regular expressions.
    Command line option: --no-follow-url

  [authentication]

entry=REGEX USER [PASS] (MULTILINE)
    Provide different user/password pairs for different link types. Entries are a triple (URL regex, username, password) or a tuple (URL regex, username), where the entries are separated by whitespace.
    The password is optional and if missing it has to be entered at the commandline.
    If the regular expression matches the checked URL, the given user/password pair is used for authentication. The commandline options -u and -p match every link and therefore override the entries given here. The first match wins. At the moment, authentication is used/needed for http[s] and ftp links.
    Command line option: -u, -p

loginurl=URL
    A login URL to be visited before checking. Also needs authentication data set for it, and implies using cookies because most logins use cookies nowadays.

loginuserfield=STRING
    The name of the user CGI field. Default name is login.

loginpasswordfield=STRING
    The name of the password CGI field. Default name is password.

loginextrafields=NAME:VALUE (MULTILINE)
    Optionally any additional CGI name/value pairs. Note that the default values are submitted automatically.

  [output]

complete=[0|1]
    If set log all checked URLs, even duplicates. Default is to log duplicate URLs only once.
    Command line option: --complete

debug=STRING[,STRING...]
    Print debugging output for the given loggers. Available loggers are cmdline, checking, cache, gui, dns, thread and all. Specifying all is an alias for specifying all available loggers.
    Command line option: --debug

fileoutput=TYPE[,TYPE...]
    Output to a files linkchecker-out.TYPE, $HOME/.linkchecker/blacklist for blacklist output.
    Valid file output types are text, html, sql, csv, gml, dot, xml, none or blacklist Default is no file output. The various output types are documented below. Note that you can suppress all console output with output=none.
    Command line option: --file-output

log=TYPE[/ENCODING]
    Specify output type as text, html, sql, csv, gml, dot, xml, none or blacklist. Default type is text. The various output types are documented below.
    The ENCODING specifies the output encoding, the default is that of your locale. Valid encodings are listed at http://docs.python.org/library/codecs.html#standard-encodings.
    Command line option: --output

quiet=[0|1]
    If set, operate quiet. An alias for log=none. This is only useful with fileoutput.
    Command line option: --verbose

status=[0|1]
    Control printing check status messages. Default is 1.
    Command line option: --no-status

verbose=[0|1]
    If set log all checked URLs once. Default is to log only errors and warnings.
    Command line option: --verbose

warnings=[0|1]
    If set log warnings. Default is to log warnings.
    Command line option: --no-warnings

  [text]

filename=STRING
    Specify output filename for text logging. Default filename is linkchecker-out.txt.
    Command line option: --file-output=

parts=STRING
    Comma-separated list of parts that have to be logged. See LOGGER PARTS below.
    Command line option: none

encoding=STRING
    Valid encodings are listed in http://docs.python.org/library/codecs.html#standard-encodings.
    Default encoding is iso-8859-15.

color*
    Color settings for the various log parts, syntax is color or type;color. The type can be bold, light, blink, invert. The color can be default, black, red, green, yellow, blue, purple, cyan, white, Black, Red, Green, Yellow, Blue, Purple, Cyan or White.
    Command line option: none

colorparent=STRING
    Set parent color. Default is white.

colorurl=STRING
    Set URL color. Default is default.

colorname=STRING
    Set name color. Default is default.

colorreal=STRING
    Set real URL color. Default is cyan.

colorbase=STRING
    Set base URL color. Default is purple.

colorvalid=STRING
    Set valid color. Default is bold;green.

colorinvalid=STRING
    Set invalid color. Default is bold;red.

colorinfo=STRING
    Set info color. Default is default.

colorwarning=STRING
    Set warning color. Default is bold;yellow.

colordltime=STRING
    Set download time color. Default is default.

colorreset=STRING
    Set reset color. Default is deault.

  [gml]

filename=STRING
    See [text] section above.

parts=STRING
    See [text] section above.

encoding=STRING
    See [text] section above.

  [dot]

filename=STRING
    See [text] section above.

parts=STRING
    See [text] section above.

encoding=STRING
    See [text] section above.

  [csv]

filename=STRING
    See [text] section above.

parts=STRING
    See [text] section above.

encoding=STRING
    See [text] section above.

separator=CHAR
    Set CSV separator. Default is a comma (,).

quotechar=CHAR
    Set CSV quote character. Default is a double quote (").

  [sql]

filename=STRING
    See [text] section above.

parts=STRING
    See [text] section above.

encoding=STRING
    See [text] section above.

dbname=STRING
    Set database name to store into. Default is linksdb.

separator=CHAR
    Set SQL command separator character. Default is a semicolor (;).

  [html]

filename=STRING
    See [text] section above.

parts=STRING
    See [text] section above.

encoding=STRING
    See [text] section above.

colorbackground=COLOR
    Set HTML background color. Default is #fff7e5.

colorurl=
    Set HTML URL color. Default is #dcd5cf.

colorborder=
    Set HTML border color. Default is #000000.

colorlink=
    Set HTML link color. Default is #191c83.

colorwarning=
    Set HTML warning color. Default is #e0954e.

colorerror=
    Set HTML error color. Default is #db4930.

colorok=
    Set HTML valid color. Default is #3ba557.

  [blacklist]

filename=STRING
    See [text] section above.

encoding=STRING
    See [text] section above.

  [xml]

filename=STRING
    See [text] section above.

parts=STRING
    See [text] section above.

encoding=STRING
    See [text] section above.

  [gxml]

filename=STRING
    See [text] section above.

parts=STRING
    See [text] section above.

encoding=STRING
    See [text] section above.

  [sitemap]

filename=STRING
    See [text] section above.

parts=STRING
    See [text] section above.

encoding=STRING
    See [text] section above.

priority=FLOAT
    A number between 0.0 and 1.0 determining the priority. The default priority for the first URL is 1.0, for all child URLs 0.5.

frequency=[always|hourly|daily|weekly|monthly|yearly|never]
    The frequence pages are changing with.

LOGGER PARTS
 all (for all parts)
 id (a unique ID for each logentry)
 realurl (the full url link)
 result (valid or invalid, with messages)
 extern (1 or 0, only in some logger types reported)
 base (base href=...)
 name (<a href=...>name</a> and <img alt="name">)
 parenturl (if any)
 info (some additional info, e.g. FTP welcome messages)
 warning (warnings)
 dltime (download time)
 checktime (check time)
 url (the original url name, can be relative)
 intro (the blurb at the beginning, "starting at ...")
 outro (the blurb at the end, "found x errors ...")

MULTILINE
Some option values can span multiple lines. Each line has to be indented for that to work. Lines starting with a hash (#) will be ignored, though they must still be indented.
 ignore=
   lconline
   bookmark
   # a comment
   ^mailto:

EXAMPLE
 [output]
 log=html
 [checking]
 threads=5
 [filtering]
 ignorewarnings=http-moved-permanent

WARNINGS
The following warnings are recognized in the 'ignorewarnings' config file entry:

file-missing-slash
    The file: URL is missing a trailing slash.

file-system-path
    The file: path is not the same as the system specific path.

ftp-missing-slash
    The ftp: URL is missing a trailing slash.

http-auth-unknonwn
    Unsupported HTTP authentication method.

http-cookie-store-error
    An error occurred while storing a cookie.

http-decompress-error
    An error occurred while decompressing the URL content.

http-empty-content
    The URL had no content.

http-moved-permanent
    The URL has moved permanently.

http-robots-denied
    The http: URL checking has been denied.

http-unsupported-encoding
    The URL content is encoded with an unknown encoding.

http-wrong-redirect
    The URL has been redirected to an URL of a different type.

https-certificate-error
    The SSL certificate is invalid or expired.

ignore-url
    The URL has been ignored.

mail-no-connection
    No connection to a MX host could be established.

mail-no-mx-host
    The mail MX host could not be found.

mail-unverified-address
    The mailto: address could not be verified.

nntp-no-newsgroup
    The NNTP newsgroup could not be found.

nntp-no-server
    No NNTP server was found.

url-anchor-not-found
    URL anchor was not found.

url-content-size-unequal
    The URL content size and download size are unequal.

url-content-size-zero
    The URL content size is zero.

url-content-too-large
    The URL content size is too large.

url-effective-url
    The effective URL is different from the original.

url-error-getting-content
    Could not get the content of the URL.

url-obfuscated-ip
    The IP is obfuscated.

url-warnregex-found
    The warning regular expression was found in the URL contents.

url-whitespace
    The URL contains leading or trailing whitespace.

SEE ALSO
linkchecker(1)

AUTHOR
Bastian Kleineidam <calvin@users.sourceforge.net>

COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2000-2012 Bastian Kleineidam