lychee/README.md

...because who says I can't write yet another link checker.

What?

This thing was created from Hello Rust Episode 10. It's a link checker that treats Github links specially by using a GITHUB_TOKEN to avoid getting blocked by the bot protection.

Why?

The existing link checkers were not flexible enough for my use-case. lychee can...

• Handle chunked encodings
• Handle gzip
• Fake user agents (required for some firewalls)
• Skip non-links like anchors or relative URLs
• SOON: Ignore SSL certificate errors

How?

cargo install lychee

Set an environment variable with your token like so GITHUB_TOKEN=xxxx.

Run it inside a repository with a README.md or specify a different Markdown file with

lychee --input <yourfile.md>

Thanks

...to my Github sponsors and Patreon sponsors for supporting these projects. If you want to help out as well, go here.