What's a good link checker for checking web sites on UNIX from Mac OSX? I need weekly reports.

October 27, 2004 10:04 AM

What's a good link checker for building web sites? The sites are on UNIX boxes and I'm on Mac OSX. I need to run something that's just gonna go thru the site and find any broken links and build a report. One that I can set to do this weekly would be best. Thanks!
posted by dobbs to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

Best answer: i use the good old w3c version, with recursive settings turned on enough to crawl the entire site. unless you want a stand-alone version...
posted by caution live frogs at 10:57 AM on October 27, 2004

I downloaded xenu link sleuth ages ago and used it a few times. It worked great online and on local sites, but its Windows only.
posted by rhapsodie at 12:27 PM on October 27, 2004

I've been extremely happy with linklint for several years, and it's easy to drop into crontab if you want it to run regularly.
posted by majick at 1:43 PM on October 27, 2004