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-linkchecker
-===========
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+LinkChecker
+============
+
+[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/valdergallo/django-compress-storage.png?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/valdergallo/django-compress-storage)
+[![Latest Version](http://img.shields.io/pypi/v/django-compress-storage.svg)](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-compress-storage)
+[![BSD License](http://img.shields.io/badge/license-BSD-yellow.svg)](http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause)
+
+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, GUI and web interface
+- various check plugins available, eg. HTML syntax and antivirus checks.
+
+Installation
+-------------
+See doc/install.txt in the source code archive.
+
+Usage
+------
+Execute ``linkchecker http://www.example.com``.
+For other options see ``linkchecker --help``.
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-Install documentation is at doc/install.txt
-Usage documentation is at doc/html/index.txt or execute
-linkchecker --help