LinkCheck

LinkCheck is a free software package that checks a web site for bad links.

Awards
Awarded Best of Linux by Dave Central
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Features

• Understands HTML 3.0
• Understands Frames
• Understands JavaScript
• Fast and lean, written in C. Source code is free
• Can check a whole web site
• Can be restricted to subdirectory checks
• Estimates download times for each page and flags slow pages
• Validates and reports temporarily moved pages and checks the new location
• Reports server types
• Reports html files last modification time
• Validates mailto hrefs for valid DNS MX record on the internet
• Validates ftp/file hrefs by getting actual file via ftp protocol
• Reports news:, telnet:, wais:, gopher, powwow: urls<
• Automatically walks the entire web site tree

Documentation

• Change log
• Authors
• Install