WISA

Who Is Still Alive: a broken link checker

Introduction

This is my release 0.1 project for DPS909 my open source development class. It is a command-line tool for finding and reporting dead links in a file.

Installation

Manual

git clone https://github.com/1jz/wisa.git
cd wisa
go install

Go

go get github.com/1jz/wisa

Usage

type wisa --help for usage or:

wisa -f [file]

for verbose output (error logs)

wisa -f [file] -v

for ignoring certain URLs

wisa -i [ignore file] -f [file]

Features

• Uses go routines to check for dead/broken links
• Uses HEAD requests for optimization
• 200-299 status codes are considered a PASS
• 403 emits a WARN
• All other codes are considered DEAD
• Uses flags for passing filename and for verbose output
• Coloured text using gookit/color
• Provide a second file to ignore certain urls

TODO:

refactor the entire project as it fails to follow go concepts.