A survey of some site link checker tools. Do you know another one? Preferably one that could be used in a CI environment?
sitemap_verify
- https://github.com/paul-m/sitemap_verify
- I wrote it.
- Written in PHP.
- Not all that mature.
- Half-baked start at making it crawl the site instead of just sitemap.xml.
- Will eventually output reports in structured file formats, like maybe junit.xml.
- This list exists so I can find out if I need to finish it or not. :-)
linkcheck
- https://github.com/filiph/linkcheck
- Written in Dart, which I'd never seen before.
- Very fast.
- Declares that
<link rel="delete-form"returning a 403 is a fail. (It is not.) I couldn't find how to change that. - Found this one:
http://mile23.com/taxonomy/term/42
- (223:260) '5 comments' => http://mile23.com/content/about-site#comments (HTTP 200 but missing anchor)
- It's telling me that this is a 200 but the page that comes back doesn't have
#commentsanchor.
linklint
- http://www.linklint.org/
- Perl. I hate to be a language snob, but... Next.
Broken Link Checker (blc)
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/broken-link-checker
- Written in node.js.
- It doesn't tell me any errors, so clearly it's the best. (That's a joke.)
- Lets you choose which 'level' of tags to use.
--filter-level The types of tags and attributes that are considered links.
0: clickable links
1: 0 + media, iframes, meta refreshes
2: 1 + stylesheets, scripts, forms
3: 2 + metadata
Default: 1
- Can include or exclude internal and/or external links. Only want to check external links? This is your tool.
linkchecker
- http://wummel.github.io/linkchecker/
- Written in python.
- Has GUI + command line.
- Outputs structured reports.
- Installation instructions are wrong for Mac OS: https://github.com/wummel/linkchecker/blob/master/doc/install.txt
- I couldn't find the Mac build, so I'd have to use XCode to build it. Will experiment on a linux container later.
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