[clue-tech] Recommended linkbot?

Angelo Bertolli angelo at freeshell.org
Fri Sep 23 18:39:05 MDT 2005


Matt Gushee wrote:

> Hey all--
>
> I need to check all the internal and external links on my Web site. 
> Anyone have a favorite link checker they'd like to recommend? I don't 
> care too much what the interface is like or what language it's written 
> in, as long as it works. Today I've tried gurlchecker, bigbrother, and 
> linkchecker, and none of them can get through the site (they fail in 
> very different ways, so at first glance it doesn't seem to be my 
> fault).  I'll debug if necessary, but I'd kinda like to get this done 
> soon, so I'm wondering if there's something better than the ones I've 
> tried.

Do you have access to the error log?  You could just run wget --mirror 
and check the error log for 401 errors, if you're mainly concerned about 
links to other pages on your own server.

w3c has a link checker that you can use online or install:
http://validator.w3.org/docs/checklink.html
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