htcheck(1)

htcheck1

Web site checker for dead/external links 2.0.0

Usage

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

Overview

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

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.

Releases

7 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 3.0
  2. 3.1
  3. 4.0–5.0
  4. 6.0–8

-D since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -c since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -i since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -k since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -s since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -v since Debian 3.1 (Sarge).

Authors

Written by Gabriele Bartolini <[email protected]>

Availability

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

From htcheck 1:2.0.0~rc1-2+b1 in Debian 8 (Jessie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.