LinkChecker-CmdLC

This repository hosts a command-line tool finding and checking the broken URLs in multiple files.

Features

• Finding all URLs from one or multiple given files base on the protocol of "http://" and "https://"
• Removing duplicated URLs from the given files
• Returning the URLs with different response code: 200 - Good, 400/404 - Bad, others - Unknown
• Coloring the output base on response code (Unix-based OS): Good - Green, Bad - Red, Unknown - grey
• Redirecting to new location when response code is 301, 307, 308
• Providing help and version utility on Picocli open source tool
• Allowing to pass directory paths and recursively process all children under that directory
• Program exit with an appropriate code, if there are no bad links, exit with 0; else exit with 1
• Allowing to choose JSON format output by '-j', '-json', '/j', '\j' options in command line

How it works

Download the LinkChecker-CmdLC.jar file from Maven Central Repository

On Unix-based operating systems

1. Make an alias first

alias lc='java -cp "picocli-4.5.1.jar:CmdLC.jar" osd.CmdLC'

2. Use lc command directly

lc [-hV] <file1> <file2> ...

3. Demonstration on Linux

On Windows operating systems

Run .jar directly

java -jar LinkChecker-CmdLC.jar <file1> <file2> ...

Available Options

Options	Description
-h, --help	Show this help message and exit
-V, --version	Print version information and exit
-j, -json	Choose to print out the result in JSON format
-u, -url	Check a website URL directly

Contribution

Want to contribute? Great! First, read CONTRIBUTING.md

Using the Library

https://github.com/remkop/picocli