Check-Link

Command-Line Interface (CLI) application to check if a web link is active or broken.

How to run the application in Linux shell

• Linux distribution users can download the application from the latest release.
• Once downloaded, simply use the application by running ./CheckLinkCLI2 followed the path to your file that stores the web links. For ease, simply move to the current directory where application is downloaded.
• If the passed file or file path is a directory, the application will read all the files in this directory.
• The application will then parse through all the links in the file and return the http status codes to the cli.

How to run the application in Powershell/CMD

• Windows users can download the application from the latest release in any local folder of your choice.
• Open Powershell or cmd.exe and navigate to the directory where executable is downloaded.
• To run the application simply type .\CheckLinkCLI2.exe + the path to your .txt or .html file.
• If the passed file or file path is a directory, the application will read all the files in this directory
• The application will then parse through all the links in the file and return the http status codes to the cli

Features

Version

• The follow command will return the current version of the application.

• Type '.\CheckLinkCLI2.exe' + -v or --version

Filtered results using support flag --all --good --bad

• Adding flags such as --good will return all the links with status 200. For example, .\CheckLinkCLI2.exe + C:\Directory\fileName +--good
• Adding flags like --bad will return all the links are not OK . For example, .\CheckLinkCLI2.exe + C:\Directory\fileName +--bad
• Adding the flag --all will simply return show all the links and their statuses. Its equilavent to not adding any flag at all.

Writing to a JSON file

• This feature will write all the links and its status code including helpful things like link statuses (e.g. good or bad) into a JSON file.

• Type .\CheckLinkCLI2.exe + C:\Directory\fileName +-j or \j or --json

Apply patterns to ignore specific urls

• This feature requires an ignore file with url patterns. It can only include comments (starts with #) and/or url patterns that starts with http:// or https://.
• Type .\CheckLinkCLI2.exe + C:\Directory\ignorePatternFileName + C:\Directory\filename + -ignore or -i or \i

Reading JSON API

• This feature requires you to run the backend of Telescope. It will check the first 10 posts and return whether the httpstatus to the console.
• Type .\CheckLinkCLI2.exe + telescope

How to contribute to Check-Link

• You are always welcome to contribute to Check-Link, see the Contributing documentation