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.. title:: LinkChecker
Check websites for broken links
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Introduction
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LinkChecker is a free, `GPL <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html>`_
licensed website validator.
LinkChecker checks links in web documents or full websites.
It runs on Python 3 systems, requiring Python 3.9 or later.
Visit the project on `GitHub <https://github.com/linkchecker/linkchecker>`_.
Installation
------------
.. code-block:: console
$ 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 the
:doc:`installation document <install>`.
Basic usage
------------
To check a URL like *http://www.example.org/myhomepage/* it is enough to
execute:
.. code-block:: console
$ linkchecker http://www.example.org/myhomepage/
This check will validate recursively all pages starting with
*http://www.example.org/myhomepage/*. Additionally, all external links
pointing outside of *www.example.org* will be checked but not recursed
into.
Find out more from the manual pages :doc:`man/linkchecker` and
:doc:`man/linkcheckerrc`.
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: and local file links support
- restriction of link checking with regular expression filters for URLs
- proxy support
- username/password authorization for HTTP and FTP
- honors robots.txt exclusion protocol
- Cookie support
- HTML5 support
- :ref:`Plugin support <man/linkchecker:PLUGINS>` allowing custom page checks
- Different interfaces: command line and web interface
Screenshots
------------
.. list-table::
* - .. image:: images/shot1.png
:scale: 20%
- .. image:: images/shot3.png
:scale: 20%
* - Commandline interface
- WSGI web interface
Test suite status
------------------
Linkchecker has extensive unit tests to ensure code quality.
`GitHub Actions <https://docs.github.com/en/actions/>`_ is used for continuous build
and test integration.
.. image:: https://github.com/linkchecker/linkchecker/actions/workflows/build.yml/badge.svg?branch=master
:alt: Build Status
:target: https://github.com/linkchecker/linkchecker/actions/workflows/build.yml
Icon
----
The project icon is categories/applications-development-web from
`Oxygen icons <https://develop.kde.org/frameworks/oxygen-icons/>`_ copyright KDE
and licensed under the `GNU LGPL version 3 <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.html>`_
or later.
.. toctree::
:hidden:
faq
install
upgrading
man/linkchecker
man/linkcheckerrc
contributing
code_of_conduct
code/index