Ever needed an utilitie that checks your webpages for broken links, missing anchors or something like that? I did, and I wrote HTML LinkChecker, a program that doing this fast and easy. It starts in a choosen file and continiue checking every linked file, e.g. all files in the folder which is linked with each other. The first time I used it, I found three broken links in my own pages...
Limitations?
Only local links will be checked, not those beginning with http://, mailto: etc. (In other words, it won't go out on the net and search) You can however specify your default URL, if you use to type the whole URL in your links. If your main page is located at http://www.me.com/index.htm for example, type "http://www.me.com/", and every link beginning with this will be checked too!
The program searches for links in the form <A HREF="link"> or <A HREF=link>. Other links won't be checked. In the same way, anchors will only be specified in the form <A NAME="anchor"> or <A NAME=anchor>. The program does not cares about missing </A> or similar.
It has the standard limitation of 30.000 characters. It means, it only checks the first 30 K of every document and it will only display a 30 K list of broken links.
How to do?
First, choose a HTML file from your local hard disk. Then specify your default URL (optional), see below. If you set the check linked files too option to true, each link on every linked file will be checked. In case, all files in the folder which is linked with each other. Otherwise, only links on the specified page will be checked. Finally, you can choose to verify anchors to check if the anchor links are broken.
The result will be either a dialog telling "No broken links were found." or a list of broken links. This list is in the form "link in file file " followed by the missing anchors (if that option was set to true) in the form "Anchor link#anchor in file file was not found". The link link can appear twice or more if it is missing in more than one file.
What does it cost?
This program is freeware! But if you feel generous to a sixteen years old programmer, a shareware fee of $5 would be very appreciated and encourage me to write more program of this kind! The program is not in the public domain, however, and all copyrights belongs to Carl Bäckström, Nisseb softwares. If you're very rich or if you have a lot of use out of this, please feel generous..:-)
Who made this stuff?
Carl Bäckström. If you want to know more, have a look at my website!
Nisseb softwares, Hackspettsgatan 8, SE-412 70 Göteborg, Sweden
