link-report - report status of links using databases
This program goes through an entire database of links and reports information about those links which match given criteria. It can optionally relate these to the locations of these links in files. It can give the output in several formats.
No actions are carried out to get further information than that which is in the database. This means that if a URI isn't listed in the link database, a warning is printed, but nothing else.
Distributed along with this program is a file for emacs which can use this to build a list of files for editing called link-report-dired. This can be very useful for fixing all broken links.
This bit is where we really miss in the design by not doing it against an SQL database. When (and if) that comes then we can add alot more power here more simply.
There are three modes for selection
by URI
by regex on the URI --uri-include --uri-exclude
by regex on the page name --page-include --page-exclude
These select which links are to be examined. Then there are options on the state of the link which choose which links to actually put out information about.
By default redirected and broken links are output. If any of these options are called then only the specified links are output.
print out links in all states
print out all links which were broken even on one check.
print out links which were redirected
The list of broken links can be put out in several formats. By defualt it is in plain text with a description of the problem and a list of broken pages following under each link. Alternatively other formats are possible. These are selected through command line options as follows.
Instead of listing the urls of the pages where broken links are, this converts each link to a file name and does a listing of the file.
This outputs a basic HTML format report which is otherwise similar to the default text report.
This report simply lists URIs of the selected links from LinkControllers database. This provides a better format for interfacing to other programs.
Much detailed control of the kind of links reported should be provided (e.g. how many times detected broken etc.). This should be done as a more advanced database system is integrated.
If there's any specific, reasonably simple, reporting option you would like added then please send a request to the bug reporting address explaining what this report would be used for.
If reporting options which don't make sense together are given then the reporting probably won't make much sense, though it should still work.
verify-link-control(1); extract-links(1); build-schedule link-report(1); fix-link(1); link-report.cgi(1); fix-link.cgi suggest(1); link-report.cgi(1); configure-link-control
The LinkController manual in the distribution in HTML, info, or postscript formats, included in the distribution. This includes information about using link-report to `interface' to databases.
http://scotclimb.org.uk/software/linkcont/ - the LinkController homepage.
To install HTML::AsHTML, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm HTML::AsHTML
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install HTML::AsHTML
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.