Blink

Blink is a command line application to detect invalid URLs.

Available Features

• Check invalid URL with HTTP/HTTPS scheme in a html/txt file
• Color output of validation result
• Use environmental variable to control color print. Set CLICOLOR=1 for color print to console.

How to install

Download the jar file directly

Download the Blink.jar file from https://search.maven.org/artifact/ca.badalsarkar/blink.

Download the source code

• Download the zip file from https://github.com/badalsarkar/Blink/releases.
• Unzip the files
• Run ./mvnw clean compile assembly:single. This will create Blink.jar file inside target directory.

System requirement

• Java version 11 or higher

Available Options

How To Use

To process a file-

java -jar /path/to/Blink.jar/ -s /path/to/the/file

To activate color output-

export CLICOLOR=1
java -jar /path/to/Blink.jar -s /path/to/the/file

Pipe text from another process

curl -s https://github.com/badalsarkar/Blink | java -jar /path/to/Blink.jar -i

To Show Help

java - jar /path/to/Blink.jar -h

To Show Version

java -jar /path/to/Blink.jar -v

Under Development

• Process multiple file
• Process files recursively from directory
• Support for glob pattern
• Parallel processing of different tasks, specifically reading from file, making http request and printing to screen and writing to file

Contributing

Read the contribution guide .