brök

Find broken links in text documents

Similar idea to awesome_bot, but with different output options.

Currently only supports http:// and https:// prefixed URLs

Install

Binaries for Mac and Linux are available. Add the binary to a directory in your path (such as /usr/local/bin).

Building

Requirements: Stack

The following command will build brök and then install it in ~/.local/bin:

stack build && stack install

Usage

Basic Usage

Check all links in a single text file:

brok test.md

Or in multiple files:

brok test.md links.tex

If you're using this as part of a test suite, you probably only need the errors:

brok text.md links.tex > /dev/null

Options

Cache

By default brök will cache successes for a day. It will always recheck errors.

If you want to adjust the cache length, you can enter the number of seconds after which the cache invalidates:

# cache for a week
brok --cache 604800 test.md links.tex

Ignore URLs

You can tell brök to ignore URLs with specified prefixes:

# ignore facebook and amazon URLS
brok --ignore "http://facebook.com" "http://amazon.com" test.md links.tex

Interval

By default brök waits for 100ms between URL checks. You can change the delay:

# wait for 1 second between checks
brok --interval 1000 test.md links.tex