---
name: "htcheck"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "htcheck"
version: "1:2.0.0~rc1-2+b1"
release: "Debian 8 (Jessie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/htcheck"
---

# htcheck(1)

Web site checker for dead/external links 2.0.0

## NAME

ht://Check - Web site checker for dead/external links 2.0.0

## SYNOPSIS

**htcheck** \[*-isvk*\] \[*-c configfile*\] \[*-D dbname*\]

## DESCRIPTION

ht://Check is more than a link checker.  It is a console application written for Linux systems in C++ and derived from ht://Dig.

It can retrieve information through HTTP/1.1 and store the information in a MySQL database, and it is particularly suitable for small Internet domains or Intranet.

Its purpose is to help a webmaster manage one or more related sites: after a "crawl", ht://Check gives back very useful summaries and reports, including broken links, anchors not found, content-types and HTTP status codes summaries, etc.

From version 1.2.3, ht://Check also performs accessibility checks in accordance with the principles of the University of Toronto's Open Accessibility Checks (OAC) project, allowing users to discover site-wide barriers like images without proper alternatives, missing titles, etc.

ht://Check can also be used for Web structure analysis, as it stores information regarding links between HTML documents.

## OPTIONS

- **-v**

  Verbose mode (more 'v's increment verbosity)

- **-s**

  Statistics (broken links, etc...) available

- **-i**

  Initialize the database (drop a previous db)

- **-k**

  Initialize the database (drop tables, keep the db)

- **-c** configfile

  Configuration file

- **-D** dbname

  Name of the database

## AUTHORS

Written by Gabriele Bartolini \<angusgb@users.sourceforge.net\>

## REPORT BUGS

Report bugs by using Sourceforge's bug tracker at: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group\_id=5071&atid=105071 or write down a note to the author.

## AVAILABILITY

The latest version of this distribution is  available  online from: http://htcheck.sourceforge.net/

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Comune di Prato - Prato - Italy

Some Portions Copyright (c) 1995-2003 The ht://Dig Group \<www.htdig.org\>

Some Portions Copyright (c) 2008-2009 Devise.IT srl \<http://www.devise.it/\>

This is free software; see the source for  copying  conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.