
LinkChecker is a free, GPL licensed website validator. It checks links in web documents or full websites.
Features:
- Recursive and multithreaded checking and site crawling.
- 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.
- HTML5 support.
- Plugin support allowing custom page checks. Currently available are HTML and CSS syntax checks, Antivirus checks, and more.
- Different interfaces: command line, GUI and web interface.
v7.2 [Oct 27, 2011]
Fixes:
- checking: HTML parser now correctly detects character encoding for
some sites.
Closes: SF bug #3388291
- logging: Fix SQL output.
Closes: SF bug #3415274, #3422230
- checking: Fix W3C HTML checking by using the new soap12 output.
Closes: SF bug #3413022
- gui: Fix startup when configuration file contains errors.
Closes: SF bug #3392021
- checking: Ignore errors trying to get FTP feature set.
Closes: SF bug #3424719
Changes:
- configuration: Parse logger and logging part names case insensitive.
Closes: SF bug #3380114
- gui: Add actions to find bookmark files to the edit menu.
Features:
- checking: If a warning regex is configured, multiple matches in
the URL content are added as warnings.
Closes: SF bug #3412317
- gui: Allow configuration of a warning regex.
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