Node W3C Validator

Crawls a given site and checks for W3C validity.

Installation

$ npm install -g w3c-validator-cli

Usage

$ w3c-validator [options] <url>

The crawler will fetch all sites matching folder URLs and certain file extensions.

Tip: Omit the URL protocol, the crawler will detect the right one.

Important: Executing the w3c-validator with sites using HTML base-tag along with links without leading slashes will probably not work.

Options

$ w3c-validator --help

  Usage: w3c-validator [options] <url>

  Options:

    -h, --help      output usage information
    -V, --version   output the version number
    -l, --log       log errors in a text file
    -q, --query     consider query string
    -v, --verbose   show error details

log

Create a log file containing all invalid URL's including error details.

query

Consider URLs with query strings like http://www.example.com/?foo=bar as indiviual sites and add them to the sitemap.

verbose

Output additional error information in the console.