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linkscanner

v0.4.2

Published

A CLI and node library to scan a source URL and recursively check URLs

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Keywords

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Readme

Linkscanner

npm version Build Status

Linkscanner will recursively scan your site for broken links, including css and javascript files if you ask it to.

usage:

linkscanner

Scans a web page for broken links

Options:
  --help                     Show help                                 [boolean]
  --version                  Show version number                       [boolean]
  --followRedirects, -L      Follow 301 & 302 redirects to their destination and
                             report that result                        [boolean]
  --debug, -d                Print additional debug logging to stderr  [boolean]
  --verbose, -v              Print more information in the output results
                             (formatter dependent)                     [boolean]
  --compact, -c              Print less information in the output results
                             (formatter dependent)                     [boolean]
  --no-progress, -P          Do not display a progress bar             [boolean]
  --progress, -p             display a progress bar                    [boolean]
  --total                    Give the progress bar a hint of approx how many
                             URLs we will scan                          [number]
  --ignore-robots-file       Causes linkscanner to not respect robots file rules
                             like disallow or crawl delay              [boolean]
  --recursive, -r            Recursively crawl all links on the same host
  --XGET                     Always use a GET request when normally would use a
                             HEAD                                      [boolean]
  --user-agent               A user-agent string to be used when sending
                             requests                                   [string]
  --max-concurrency          The maximum number of simultaneous requests going
                             out from your computer                     [number]
  --timeout                  The maximum time to wait (in seconds) for a
                             response before writing a timeout to the results
                                                          [number] [default: 10]
  --headers, -H                                                          [array]
  --formatter, -f, --format  Set the output formatter or format string.
                             Options: console (default), table, json, csv,
                             or format string like "url: %{url_effective}"
                                                                        [string]
  --skip-leaves              Do not issue a HEAD request to leaf urls, simply
                             print them (implies show-skipped)         [boolean]
  --exclude-external, -e     Do not test links that point to other hosts
                                                                       [boolean]
  --show-skipped             Display skipped results in the formatted output
                                                                       [boolean]
  --include, -i              CSS Selector for which HTML elements to inspect.
                             Examples: "a", "link[rel=\"canonical\"]", "img",
                             "script", "form", "iframe", "all"           [array]
  --only                     A content type (or list of content types) to parse.
                             All other content types will not be scanned for
                             links.                                      [array]

example:

▶ linkscanner -r http://gordonburgett.net
200 GET  http://gordonburgett.net/
	26 links found. 0 not checked. 0 broken.
	301 GET  http://gordonburgett.net/albania
	301 GET  http://gordonburgett.net/search
	301 HEAD http://www.gordonburgett.net/index.xml
	301 HEAD http://www.gordonburgett.net/

200 GET  http://gordonburgett.net/sq/
	found on http://gordonburgett.net/
	14 links found. 0 not checked. 0 broken.
	301 GET  http://gordonburgett.net/sq/albania
	301 GET  http://gordonburgett.net/sq/search
	301 HEAD http://www.gordonburgett.net/index.xml
	301 HEAD http://www.gordonburgett.net/sq/

200 GET  http://gordonburgett.net/post/2019/04_summer_projects_2019/
	found on http://gordonburgett.net/
	13 links found. 0 not checked. 0 broken.
	301 GET  http://gordonburgett.net/albania
	301 GET  http://gordonburgett.net/search
	301 HEAD http://www.gordonburgett.net/index.xml
	301 HEAD http://biblehub.com/esv/1_corinthians/3.htm
	301 HEAD https://www.teamalbania.org/blog/2019-02-25-the-plus-in-albania-plus
	301 HEAD http://biblehub.com/esv/1_corinthians/3.htm
	301 HEAD http://www.gordonburgett.net/post/2019/04_summer_projects_2019/

...

When STDOUT is not a TTY (for example, when piping) then the default output formatter is the Table format. This makes it easy to work with using command line tools:

▶ linkscanner  http://gordonburgett.net/ | awk '{ print $3,$1 }'
http://gordonburgett.net/ 200
http://gordonburgett.net/albania 301
http://gordonburgett.net/search 301
http://gordonburgett.net/sq/ 200
http://www.gordonburgett.net/index.xml 301
http://gordonburgett.net/# 200
http://gordonburgett.net/pubkey.txt 200
http://gordonburgett.net/post/2019/04_summer_projects_2019/ 200
http://gordonburgett.net/post/2018/07_acts_29_in_albania/ 200
http://gordonburgett.net/post/2018/05_enrolled_at_hogwarts/ 200
http://gordonburgett.net/post/2018/04_upcoming_summer_project/ 200
http://gordonburgett.net/post/2017/12_mens_retreat/ 200
http://gordonburgett.net/post/2017/10_nothings_over/ 200
http://gordonburgett.net/post/2017/07_making_a_searchable_static_site/ 200
http://gordonburgett.net/post/2017/07_home/ 200
http://gordonburgett.net/post/ 200
http://www.gordonburgett.net/ 301
https://github.com/gburgett 200

The verbose table format is a markdown table:

▶ linkscanner -v http://gordonburgett.net/ | pbcopy

| status | method | url | ms | parent | | ------ | ------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 200 | GET | http://gordonburgett.net/ | 86 | | | 301 | HEAD | http://gordonburgett.net/albania | 67 | http://gordonburgett.net/ | | 301 | HEAD | http://gordonburgett.net/search | 52 | http://gordonburgett.net/ | | 200 | HEAD | http://gordonburgett.net/sq/ | 55 | http://gordonburgett.net/ | | 301 | HEAD | http://www.gordonburgett.net/index.xml | 55 | http://gordonburgett.net/ | | 200 | HEAD | http://gordonburgett.net/# | 51 | http://gordonburgett.net/ | | 200 | HEAD | http://gordonburgett.net/pubkey.txt | 50 | http://gordonburgett.net/ | | 200 | HEAD | http://gordonburgett.net/post/2019/04_summer_projects_2019/ | 77 | http://gordonburgett.net/ | | 200 | HEAD | http://gordonburgett.net/post/2018/07_acts_29_in_albania/ | 49 | http://gordonburgett.net/ | | 200 | HEAD | http://gordonburgett.net/post/2018/05_enrolled_at_hogwarts/ | 40 | http://gordonburgett.net/ | | 200 | HEAD | http://gordonburgett.net/post/2018/04_upcoming_summer_project/ | 45 | http://gordonburgett.net/ | | 200 | HEAD | http://gordonburgett.net/post/2017/12_mens_retreat/ | 67 | http://gordonburgett.net/ | | 200 | HEAD | http://gordonburgett.net/post/2017/10_nothings_over/ | 59 | http://gordonburgett.net/ | | 200 | HEAD | http://gordonburgett.net/post/2017/07_making_a_searchable_static_site/ | 51 | http://gordonburgett.net/ | | 200 | HEAD | http://gordonburgett.net/post/2017/07_home/ | 47 | http://gordonburgett.net/ | | 200 | HEAD | http://gordonburgett.net/post/ | 44 | http://gordonburgett.net/ | | 301 | HEAD | http://www.gordonburgett.net/ | 54 | http://gordonburgett.net/ | | 200 | HEAD | https://github.com/gburgett | 1375 | http://gordonburgett.net/ |

To get back to the regular format you can use -f console:

▶ linkscanner  http://gordonburgett.net/ -f console | pbcopy
200 GET  http://gordonburgett.net/
	26 links found. 0 not checked. 0 broken.
	301 HEAD http://gordonburgett.net/albania
	301 HEAD http://gordonburgett.net/search
	301 HEAD http://www.gordonburgett.net/index.xml
	301 HEAD http://www.gordonburgett.net/

Check JS, CSS, and Images with the --include=all option:

▶ linkscanner -i all -f table http://gordonburgett.net
...
200	HEAD	http://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.3.0/css/font-awesome.min.css      	  63	http://gordonburgett.net/
200	HEAD	http://gordonburgett.net/css/uno.min.css                                        	 108	http://gordonburgett.net/
200	HEAD	https://github.com/gburgett                                                     	 847	http://gordonburgett.net/
200	HEAD	http://gordonburgett.net/css/custom.css                                         	 121	http://gordonburgett.net/
200	HEAD	https://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.2.4.min.js                                     	  92	http://gordonburgett.net/
200	HEAD	http://gordonburgett.net/js/highlight/styles/vs2015.css                         	 181	http://gordonburgett.net/
200	HEAD	http://gordonburgett.net/js/main.min.js                                         	  92	http://gordonburgett.net/
200	HEAD	http://gordonburgett.net/js/custom.js                                           	  88	http://gordonburgett.net/
200	HEAD	http://gordonburgett.net/js/highlight/highlight.pack.js                         	  87	http://gordonburgett.net/

When scanning application/json responses, by default the scanner looks for URLs in any of the following keys, no matter how deep in the document: links, _links, link, _link, or url.

If you want to scan more keys for links, use the --include option with a jsonpath selector, or use --include all which will scan every key.