DeadlinkChecker

Maintainer: Cyberpower678

This is a PHP library for detecting whether URLs on the internet are alive or dead via cURL. It includes the following features:

• Supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, MMS, and RTSP URLs
• Supports TOR
• Supports internationalized domain names
• Correctly reports soft 404s as dead (in most cases)
• For optimized performance, it initially performs a header-only page request (CURLOPT_NOBODY). If that request fails, it then tries to do a normal full body page request.

Installation

Using composer: Add the following to the composer.json file for your project:

{
  "require": {
     "wikimedia/deadlinkchecker": "dev-master"
  }
}

And then run 'composer update'.

Or using git:

$ git clone https://github.com/wikimedia/DeadlinkChecker.git

Basic Usage

For checking a single link:

$deadLinkChecker = new checkIfDead();
$url = 'https://en.wikipedia.org';
$exec = $deadLinkChecker->isLinkDead( $url );
echo var_export( $exec );

Prints:

false

For checking an array of links:

$deadLinkChecker = new checkIfDead();
$urls = [ 'https://en.wikipedia.org/nothing', 'https://en.wikipedia.org' ];
$exec = $deadLinkChecker->areLinksDead( $urls );
echo var_export( $exec );

Prints:

array (
  'https://en.wikipedia.org/nothing' => true,
  'https://en.wikipedia.org' => false,
)

Note that these functions will return null if they are unable to determine whether a link is alive or dead.

Advanced Usage

You can control how long it takes before page requests timeout by passing parameters to the constructor. To set the header-only page requests to a 10 second timeout and the full page requests to a 20 second timeout, you would use the following:

$deadLinkChecker = new checkIfDead( 10, 20 );

License

This code is distributed under GNU GPLv3+