urlChecker

Go implementation of the url checking

Versioning

This is the 0.2 version of this tool.

Usage

git clone https://github.com/isabellaliu77/urlChecker.git

cd urlchecker
go run urlChecker.go test/urls.txt
go run urlChecker.go test/urls.txt test/urls2.txt

Features

• It can check the file passed through arguments to get and check the urls inside it.

• Multiple files an be passed through arguments to get checked.

• The result will show different colors and notifications based on different accessibility of each url.

• The version of the tool can be checked through command line arguments, supporting both Windows and Unix style. (-v, --version, /v)

• Support for parallelization for the tool to run efficiently

• Only headers are requested when the urls are being checked.

• Allows passing glob pattern as an argument

  go run urlChecker.go -g [glob-pattern]
  

  For example,

  go run urlChecker.go -g *.txt
  

• Allows passing -j, --json flag, which causes the program to output JSON. The JSON output should look like [ { "url": 'https://www.google.com', "status": 200 }, { "url": 'https://bad-link.com', "status": 404 } ], and allows output be piped into a file, eg.: output.txt

  go run urlChecker.go test/urls2.txt -j
  

  go run urlChecker.go test/urls2.txt --json > output.txt
  

• Allows passing -i, --ignore flags to provide options to ignore links inside the file after the flags, for examaple:

  go run urlCheck.go --ignore test/ignoreUrl.txt test/urls2.txt