Urltester

Command-line tool for finding and reporting dead links (e.g., broken URLs) in a file

Usage

• urltester
  • This command displays a standard usage manual which shows how to use the tool as well as the command line arguments available
• urltester <filename>
  • This command enables the tool to search for all the links in the file, make network requests and prints out the url with their respective status code
• urltester -v | version
  • Using either v or version command, you can see the tool name and current version
• urltester -j | --json | \j
  • Using either one of these commands will display the outputs in JSON format
• urltester -all | --good | --bad
  • --all will displays all URLs
  • --good will display all good URLs i.e. status code 200
  • --bad will display all bad URLs i.e. status code 400 or 404
• urltester -i | --ignore
  • Using either one of these commands will parse an ignored URLs text file. All URLs should be checked against this list to see if they need to be ignored.

Features

• It looks for and processes all the URLs using http:// or https:// schemes
• URLs are displayed according to the following:
  • Green: good, status code 200
  • Red: bad, status code 400 or 404
  • Gray: unknown, status code
• Optimized to request headers instead of full body downloads
• Additional support is added for timeouts
• Ignore URL pattern feature is added to ignore specified URL patterns.