This app uses node, therefore you need to have the latest version of node installed on your computer.
- Colourizing output. Good URLs should be printed in green, bad URLs in red, and unknown URLs in gray
- Running the tool with the v or version argument should print the name of the tool and its version
- Supports both --version and -v command line arguments
- Use the -g and -b arguments after you enter the filename in order to only print good or bad links!
- The app will also let you know what your exit code is after it's finished (0 for only good links, 1 for at least 1 bad link, and 2 for at least 1 unknown link)
- Use the -i argument to ignore certain links in a file!
- npm
- a text file that you would like to test the links within
npx l-checker <path-to-file>
- install Link Checker:
npm install l-checker - run the app:
linkchecker <path-to-file>
linkchecker <path-to-file> -i <path-to-ignore-file>
Good: linkchecker <path-to-file> -g
Bad: linkchecker <path-to-file> -b
All: linkchecker <path-to-file>
- yargs, for using arguments in the cli program: https://github.com/yargs/yargs
- get-urls, for separating links in a file: https://github.com/sindresorhus/get-urls
- chalk, for adding colour to the good, bad, and unknown links: https://github.com/chalk/chalk
- request, for requesting access to websites and grabbing the status code: https://github.com/request/request