Προγραμματισμός ΙΙ: Validate your links

Tools and practices: Validate Links

• Στέφανος Γεωργίου

Problem

• Does your webpage includes broken links?
  
• Are your documents or repositories have valid links?
  
• Maybe now not but what about later?

Solution

• validateLinks, a command-line tools written in BASH.
  
• Free of use and open source.
  
• Can identify passing, redirected, Client and Server Error links.
  
• Can be used on local documents or online links.
  
• Offers statistic results on your links status.
  
• First Depth Search for local directories.
  
• Can be added as a crotab to check your webpages or documents periodically.

Usage Instructions

bash validateLinks // Performs analysis on CWD
bash validateLinks --help // prints help message
bash validateLinks --dir ../ //Performs analysis on PWD
bash validateLinks --link http://www.google.com // Analysis on google site
bash validateLinks --recursive //Depth First Search on CWD
bash validateLinks --passing //show all passing links
bash validateLinks --redirection //show all redirected links
bash validateLinks --clientError //show all client error links
bash validateLinks --serverError //show all server error links
bash validateLinks --version //show current version

Overview

Report Bugs

• You are more than welcome to replicate and extend the tools.
  
• You may report bugs here

Thank you for your attention!