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An open source command line interface link checker that will look for dead links. Made for DPS909 for release 0.1

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lFinder

An open source command line interface link checker written in node.js that will look for dead links with support for .txt, .html and .doc files.


Features

  • Coloured text cleanly shows what urls are good or bad in your system
    • Good links (200 status) are in green
    • Checks for bad 404 and 400 errors in bright red
    • Unknown errors (not a 404 or 400) are in grey
    • Timeouts and DNS resolution are in dark red
  • Shows number of lines in file, number of lines with URLs, and number of unique URLs
  • Asyncronous functionality speeds up checking

Installation

  1. Ensure you have node.js installed on your computer
  2. Download the tool as a zip or clone it
  3. Open up a command line terminal and go into the folder with the tool
  4. Run command npm -install -g to install globally while inside the folder
    ===ALTERNATIVLEY===
    Run command npm install -g https://github.com/Supercraft888/lFinder.git which should install it from github itself globally

To uninstall use a command line terminal and enter npm uninstall -g lFinder


Instructions

To run in your command window type: lFinder -n <name of the file> Replace with the location of file from current directory if necessary. Other viable prompts are --name.

To see which version type lFinder --version or lFinder -v

To see viable commands type lFinder --help

You can ignore the testing files, they are not necessary.

License

ISC License Copyright (c) 2020, Alexander Hugh

PLEASE READ LICENCE.md FOR MORE INFORMATION

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