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LinkChecker
============
|Build Status|_ |License|_
.. |Build Status| image:: https://github.com/linkchecker/linkchecker/actions/workflows/build.yml/badge.svg?branch=master
.. _Build Status: https://github.com/linkchecker/linkchecker/actions/workflows/build.yml
.. |License| image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/license-GPL2-d49a6a.svg
.. _License: https://opensource.org/licenses/GPL-2.0
Check for broken links in web sites.
Features
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- 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 and web interface
- various check plugins available
Installation
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Python 3.8 or later is needed. Using pip to install LinkChecker:
``pip3 install linkchecker``
The version in the pip repository may be old, to find out how to get the latest
code, plus platform-specific information and other advice see `doc/install.txt`_
in the source code archive.
.. _doc/install.txt: https://linkchecker.github.io/linkchecker/install.html
Usage
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Execute ``linkchecker https://www.example.com``.
For other options see ``linkchecker --help``, and for more information the
manual pages `linkchecker(1)`_ and `linkcheckerrc(5)`_.
.. _linkchecker(1): https://linkchecker.github.io/linkchecker/man/linkchecker.html
.. _linkcheckerrc(5): https://linkchecker.github.io/linkchecker/man/linkcheckerrc.html
Docker usage
-------------
If you do not want to install any additional libraries/dependencies you can use
the Docker image which is published on GitHub Packages.
Example for external web site check::
docker run --rm -it -u $(id -u):$(id -g) ghcr.io/linkchecker/linkchecker:latest --verbose https://www.example.com
Local HTML file check::
docker run --rm -it -u $(id -u):$(id -g) -v "$PWD":/mnt ghcr.io/linkchecker/linkchecker:latest --verbose index.html
In addition to the rolling latest image, uniquely tagged images can also be found
on the `packages`_ page.
.. _packages: https://github.com/linkchecker/linkchecker/pkgs/container/linkchecker