Please recommend a tool that checks for broken links on a web site.
not required, but would be nice to have:
- checks standards-compliance of the HTML, CSS, Javascript, ...
- displays permanent redirects
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LinkChecker is a free, GPL licensed URL validator.
Features
- recursive and multithreaded checking
- 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
- restriction of link checking with regular expression filters for URLs
- proxy support
- username/password authorization for HTTP and FTP and Telnet
- honors robots.txt exclusion protocol
- Cookie support
- HTML and CSS syntax check
- Antivirus check
- Different interfaces: command line, GUI and web interface
It's also in Debian Lenny: aptitude install linkchecker and in the FreeBSD ports: /usr/ports/www/linkchecker
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That's a great tool! I find it very useful to validate the links in my project. Thanks to both!– BarunJan 18, 2011 at 7:02
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Why add a note about Lenny? Here, we are trying to keep things generic, if we can help it.– tshepangJan 18, 2011 at 8:30
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8@Tshepang: Because I'm trying to be useful. Does it bother anyone? Stop being pedantic, please. Jan 18, 2011 at 14:04
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3@Tshepang: I disagree. I think it's a useful note that doesn't take away from anyone else - the source is still in the first link. Having said that, if a moderator asks me to remove it I will do so. Jan 18, 2011 at 15:40
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2Note that wummel stopped development of LinkChecker in 2016. Active development continues in the linkchecker/linkchecker repo. Unfortunately, Google still (as of late 2020) returns the old wummel repo as the first hit if you search for LinkChecker. Sep 29, 2020 at 10:14