Link checking software

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by mopacfan, Dec 22, 2004.

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    Does anyone have any recommendations for a software utility that will check all anchors on a given site and report back which, if any, links are broken? Any and all suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
     
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  2. pwaring

    pwaring Well-Known Member

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    The W3C offers one as part of their validation service:

    http://validator.w3.org/checklink

    although I'd recommend downloading the script and running it locally, because if you choose maximum recursion (i.e. check links, check the links on the pages that are linked to etc.) it can go a bit crazy. It highlights broken links (internal and external) with big red text so it's rather difficult to miss them. :)
     
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    chachi The other Jason

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    I use that too. I usually set it to go 3 levels deep
     
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    riziko Peon

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    Hi,

    Have you tried:

    SSW Link Auditor - http://www.ssw.com.au/ssw/LinkAuditor/default.aspx
    or
    Xenus Link Sleuth - http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html
    (watch out this page is weird)

    ross
     
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    link validators free?
     
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    Link auditor is not free but you can try it out for 30 days or so.
    Xenu is free but is a bit slower than Link auditor.
    I noticed that w3c.org has a link validator also. http://validator.w3.org/checklink

    Ross
     
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    maverick, Jan 24, 2005 IP