linkchecker

linkchecker is a Go library that will crawl a given web domain and test all urls within the domain. linkchecker is available as a standalone binary as well.

Built with Aloha in Hawaii 🌊

Thank you to @bitfield for all of his mentoring on my Go journey!

Installation as a library

From your project folder:

go get github.com/mbarley333/linkchecker

Usage:

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"

	"github.com/mbarley333/linkchecker"
)

func main() {
	results := linkchecker.CheckSiteLinks("https://somewebpage123.com")

	for result := range results {

		// output only broken links
		if result.ResponseCode != http.StatusOK || result.Error != nil {
			fmt.Println(result)
		}
	}

}

Installation as a container (linux, mac)

docker pull mbarley333/linkchecker:latest

Usage as a container

docker run mbarley333/linkchecker:latest https://somewebpage123.com

Installation as a binary

If you use a Mac, just curl the install.sh file

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mbarley333/linkchecker/main/install.sh | sh

All OS types just download the prebuilt binaries for your OS from the Releases section
- Unzip
- For Mac on first usage, open Finder and locate the unzipped file Right Click on file > Open
- cd to folder
```
./linkchecker https://somewebpage123.com
```

Usage as a binary

./linkchecker -help

        Description:
          linkchecker will crawl a site and return the status of each link on the site

        Usage:
        ./linkchecker https://somewebpage123.com

Functional Options!!!

Ratelimiter
Buffered Channel size for results
Error log
Output

More stuff

Progress bar
Colored fonts