Linksta
Link checker for your website.
The idea is to quickly check a page for broken links by doing a status check on all the relative URL's on the page.
There are 4 parts to this tool, the URL, the base URL, the regex and the filename.
- URL is the page that you want to check for broken links, e.g
www.foo.co.uk/foo
- Base URL is used with the relative URL from the regex to create a full URL, e.g
www.foo.co.uk
- Regex is the point of the URL that you want to keep from the regex, e.g
foo.co.uk/radio/new
, specifying/foo
would create/foo/new
. - Filename is markdown (.md) file where all the page links are stored, this can be useful for manual checks, e.g
file.md
Installation
gem install linksta
Usage
Command Line
linksta check <url> <base_url> <regex> <filename>
Examples
linksta check http://www.foo.co.uk/foo http://www.foo.co.uk/foo radio.md
Output
Once running, you'll see either a 200 with Status is 200 for <URL>
or Status is NOT GOOD for <URL>
.
Script It
require 'linksta'
url = 'http://www.foo.co.uk/foo'
base = 'http://www.foo.co.uk'
reg = '/foo'
filename = 'radio.md'
page = Linksta::SaveLinks.new(url, filename)
status = Linksta::CheckResponse.new(url, base, reg, filename)
page.capture_links
status.check_links
From a File
If you have a lot of URLs that you want to check all the time using from a file is an alternative option. This will utilise the smoke option, then point to a YAML file with the extension. In some situations, we are deploying applications that we don't want public facing, so ensuring they 404 is essential. There is a status code option to allow a specific status code to be set against a group of URL's, ensuring builds fail if the right code conditions are met.
linksta smoke test.yaml
Example YAML Config:
base: 'http://www.foo.co.uk'
concurrency: 100
headers:
-
X-content-override: 'https://example.com'
status_code: 200
paths:
- /foo
- /foo/new
Via a Ruby script:
require 'linksta'
tests = Linksta::Checker.new("path/to.yaml")
tests.smoke