- LinkChecker
LinkChecker is a free, GPL licensed URL validator and site crawler.
Main Features:
- recursive and multithreaded checking and site crawling
- output in colored or normal text, HTML, SQL, CSV, XML or a sitemap graph in different formats
- HTTP/1.1, HTTPS, FTP, mailto:, news:, nntp:, Telnet and local file links support
- restriction of link checking with regular expression filters for URLs
- proxy support
- username/password authorization for HTTP and FTP and Telnet
- honors robots.txt exclusion protocol
- Cookie support
- HTML5 support
- HTML and CSS syntax check
- Antivirus check
- Different interfaces: command line, GUI and web interface
Website: http://linkchecker.sourceforge.net/
Direct Download for Windows: http://sourceforge.net/projects/linkchecker/files/7.5/LinkChecker-7.5.exe/download
- WebCheck
WebCheck is a website checking tool for webmasters. It crawls a given website and generates a number of reports. The whole system is pluggable allowing easily adding extra reports and checks.
Main Features:
- support for http, https, ftp and file schemes
- view the structure of a site
- track down broken links
- find potentially outdated and new pages
- list links pointing to external sites
- can run without user intervention
Website: http://arthurdejong.org/webcheck/
Direct Download: http://arthurdejong.org/webcheck/webcheck-1.10.4.tar.gz
- LinkLint
Linklint is an Open Source Perl program that checks links on web sites. It is licensed under the Gnu General Public License.
Main Features:
- both local-file and HTTP site checking
- cross referenced and fully hyperlinked output reports
- the ability to check password protected areas
- support for all standard server-side image maps
- reports of orphan files, and files with mismatching case
- a report of which URLs have changed since last checked
- support of proxy servers for remote URL checking
Website: http://www.linklint.org/
Direct Download for Windows: http://www.linklint.org/download/linklint-2.3.5.zip
