linkcheckerrc (5) Linux Manual Page

linkcheckerrc – configuration file for LinkChecker

Description

linkcheckerrc is the configuration file for LinkChecker. The file is written in an INI-style format.
The default file location is ~/.linkchecker/linkcheckerrc on Unix, %HOMEPATH%\.linkchecker\linkcheckerrc on Windows systems.

Settings

[checking]

cookiefile=filename

Read a file with initial cookie data. The cookie data format is explained in linkchecker(1).
Command line option: –cookiefile

localwebroot=STRING

When checking absolute URLs inside local files, the given root directory is used as base URL.
Note that the given directory must have URL syntax, so it must use a slash to join directories instead of a backslash. And the given directory must end with a slash.
Command line option: none

nntpserver=STRING

Specify an NNTP server for news: links. Default is the environment variable NNTP_SERVER. If no host is given, only the syntax of the link is checked.
Command line option: –nntp-server

recursionlevel=NUMBER

Check recursively all links up to given depth. A negative depth will enable infinite recursion. Default depth is infinite.
Command line option: –recursion-level

threads=NUMBER

Generate no more than the given number of threads. Default number of threads is 100. To disable threading specify a non-positive number.
Command line option: –threads

timeout=NUMBER

Set the timeout for connection attempts in seconds. The default timeout is 60 seconds.
Command line option: –timeout

aborttimeout=NUMBER

Time to wait for checks to finish after the user aborts the first time (with Ctrl-C or the abort button). The default abort timeout is 300 seconds.
Command line option: –timeout

useragent=STRING

Specify the User-Agent string to send to the HTTP server, for example "Mozilla/4.0". The default is "LinkChecker/X.Y" where X.Y is the current version of LinkChecker.
Command line option: –user-agent

sslverify=[0|1|filename]

If set to zero disables SSL certificate checking. If set to one (the default) enables SSL certificate checking with the provided CA certificate file. If a filename is specified, it will be used as the certificate file.
Command line option: none

maxrunseconds=NUMBER

Stop checking new URLs after the given number of seconds. Same as if the user stops (by hitting Ctrl-C or clicking the abort buttin in the GUI) after the given number of seconds.
The default is not to stop until all URLs are checked.
Command line option: none

maxnumurls=NUMBER

Maximum number of URLs to check. New URLs will not be queued after the given number of URLs is checked.
The default is to queue and check all URLs.
Command line option: none

maxrequestspersecond=NUMBER

Limit the maximum number of requests per second to one host.

allowedschemes=NAME[,NAME…]

Allowed URL schemes as comma-separated list.

[filtering]

ignore=REGEX (MULTILINE)

Only check syntax of URLs matching the given regular expressions.
Command line option: –ignore-url

ignorewarnings=NAME[,NAME…]

Ignore the comma-separated list of warnings. See WARNIGS for the list of supported warnings.
Command line option: none

internlinks=REGEX

Regular expression to add more URLs recognized as internal links. Default is that URLs given on the command line are internal.
Command line option: none

nofollow=REGEX (MULTILINE)

Check but do not recurse into URLs matching the given regular expressions.
Command line option: –no-follow-url

checkextern=[0|1]

Check external links. Default is to check internal links only.
Command line option: –checkextern

[authentication]

entry=REGEX USER [PASS] (MULTILINE)

Provide different user/password pairs for different link types. Entries are a triple (URL regex, username, password) or a tuple (URL regex, username), where the entries are separated by whitespace.
The password is optional and if missing it has to be entered at the commandline.
If the regular expression matches the checked URL, the given user/password pair is used for authentication. The commandline options -u and -p match every link and therefore override the entries given here. The first match wins. At the moment, authentication is used/needed for http[s] and ftp links.
Command line option: -u, -p

loginurl=URL

A login URL to be visited before checking. Also needs authentication data set for it.

loginuserfield=STRING

The name of the user CGI field. Default name is login.

loginpasswordfield=STRING

The name of the password CGI field. Default name is password.

loginextrafields=NAME:VALUE (MULTILINE)

Optionally any additional CGI name/value pairs. Note that the default values are submitted automatically.

[output]

debug=STRING[,STRING…]

Print debugging output for the given loggers. Available loggers are cmdline, checking, cache, gui, dns, thread and all. Specifying all is an alias for specifying all available loggers.
Command line option: –debug

fileoutput=TYPE[,TYPE…]

Output to a files linkchecker-out.TYPE, $HOME/.linkchecker/blacklist for blacklist output.
Valid file output types are text, html, sql, csv, gml, dot, xml, none or blacklist Default is no file output. The various output types are documented below. Note that you can suppress all console output with output=none.
Command line option: –file-output

log=TYPE[/ENCODING]

Specify output type as text, html, sql, csv, gml, dot, xml, none or blacklist. Default type is text. The various output types are documented below.
The ENCODING specifies the output encoding, the default is that of your locale. Valid encodings are listed at http://docs.python.org/library/codecs.html#standard-encodings.
Command line option: –output

quiet=[0|1]

If set, operate quiet. An alias for log=none. This is only useful with fileoutput.
Command line option: –verbose

status=[0|1]

Control printing check status messages. Default is 1.
Command line option: –no-status

verbose=[0|1]

If set log all checked URLs once. Default is to log only errors and warnings.
Command line option: –verbose

warnings=[0|1]

If set log warnings. Default is to log warnings.
Command line option: –no-warnings

[text]

filename=STRING

Specify output filename for text logging. Default filename is linkchecker-out.txt.
Command line option: –file-output=

parts=STRING

Comma-separated list of parts that have to be logged. See LOGGER PARTS below.
Command line option: none

encoding=STRING

Valid encodings are listed in http://docs.python.org/library/codecs.html#standard-encodings.
Default encoding is iso-8859-15.

color*

Color settings for the various log parts, syntax is color or type;color. The type can be bold, light, blink, invert. The color can be default, black, red, green, yellow, blue, purple, cyan, white, Black, Red, Green, Yellow, Blue, Purple, Cyan or White.
Command line option: none

colorparent=STRING

Set parent color. Default is white.

colorurl=STRING

Set URL color. Default is default.

colorname=STRING

Set name color. Default is default.

colorreal=STRING

Set real URL color. Default is cyan.

colorbase=STRING

Set base URL color. Default is purple.

colorvalid=STRING

Set valid color. Default is bold;green.

colorinvalid=STRING

Set invalid color. Default is bold;red.

colorinfo=STRING

Set info color. Default is default.

colorwarning=STRING

Set warning color. Default is bold;yellow.

colordltime=STRING

Set download time color. Default is default.

colorreset=STRING

Set reset color. Default is deault.

[gml]

filename=STRING

See [text] section above.

parts=STRING

See [text] section above.

encoding=STRING

See [text] section above.

[dot]

filename=STRING

See [text] section above.

parts=STRING

See [text] section above.

encoding=STRING

See [text] section above.

[csv]

filename=STRING

See [text] section above.

parts=STRING

See [text] section above.

encoding=STRING

See [text] section above.

separator=CHAR

Set CSV separator. Default is a comma (,).

quotechar=CHAR

Set CSV quote character. Default is a double quote (").

[sql]

filename=STRING

See [text] section above.

parts=STRING

See [text] section above.

encoding=STRING

See [text] section above.

dbname=STRING

Set database name to store into. Default is linksdb.

separator=CHAR

Set SQL command separator character. Default is a semicolor (;).

[html]

filename=STRING

See [text] section above.

parts=STRING

See [text] section above.

encoding=STRING

See [text] section above.

colorbackground=COLOR

Set HTML background color. Default is #fff7e5.

colorurl=

Set HTML URL color. Default is #dcd5cf.

colorborder=

Set HTML border color. Default is #000000.

colorlink=

Set HTML link color. Default is #191c83.

colorwarning=

Set HTML warning color. Default is #e0954e.

colorerror=

Set HTML error color. Default is #db4930.

colorok=

Set HTML valid color. Default is #3ba557.

[blacklist]

filename=STRING

See [text] section above.

encoding=STRING

See [text] section above.

[xml]

filename=STRING

See [text] section above.

parts=STRING

See [text] section above.

encoding=STRING

See [text] section above.

[gxml]

filename=STRING

See [text] section above.

parts=STRING

See [text] section above.

encoding=STRING

See [text] section above.

[sitemap]

filename=STRING

See [text] section above.

parts=STRING

See [text] section above.

encoding=STRING

See [text] section above.

priority=FLOAT

A number between 0.0 and 1.0 determining the priority. The default priority for the first URL is 1.0, for all child URLs 0.5.

frequency=[always|hourly|daily|weekly|monthly|yearly|never]

The frequence pages are changing with.

Logger Parts

 all       (for all parts)
 id        (a unique ID for each logentry)
 realurl   (the full url link)
 result    (valid or invalid, with messages)
 extern    (1 or 0, only in some logger types reported)
 base      (base href=…)
 name      (<a href=…>name</a> and <img alt="name">)
 parenturl (if any)
 info      (some additional info, e.g. FTP welcome messages)
 warning   (warnings)
 dltime    (download time)
 checktime (check time)
 url       (the original url name, can be relative)
 intro     (the blurb at the beginning, "starting at …")
 outro     (the blurb at the end, "found x errors …")

Multiline

Some option values can span multiple lines. Each line has to be indented for that to work. Lines starting with a hash (#) will be ignored, though they must still be indented.

 ignore=
   lconline
   bookmark
   # a comment
   ^mailto:

Example

[output]

log=html
[checking]

threads=5
[filtering]

ignorewarnings=http-moved-permanent

Plugins

All plugins have a separate section. If the section appears in the configuration file the plugin is enabled. Some plugins read extra options in their section.

[AnchorCheck]

Checks validity of HTML anchors.

[LocationInfo]

Adds the country and if possible city name of the URL host as info. Needs GeoIP or pygeoip and a local country or city lookup DB installed.

[RegexCheck]

Define a regular expression which prints a warning if it matches any content of the checked link. This applies only to valid pages, so we can get their content.

Use this to check for pages that contain some form of error message, for example ‘This page has moved’ or ‘Oracle Application error’.

Note that multiple values can be combined in the regular expression, for example "(This page has moved|Oracle Application error)".

[SslCertificateCheck]

Check SSL certificate expiration date. Only internal https: links will be checked. A domain will only be checked once to avoid duplicate warnings.

sslcertwarndays=NUMBER

Configures the expiration warning time in days.

[HtmlSyntaxCheck]

Check the syntax of HTML pages with the online W3C HTML validator. See http://validator.w3.org/docs/api.html.

[HttpHeaderInfo]

Print HTTP headers in URL info.

prefixes=prefix1[,prefix2]…

List of comma separated header prefixes. For example to display all HTTP headers that start with "X-".

[CssSyntaxCheck]

Check the syntax of HTML pages with the online W3C CSS validator. See http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/manual.html#expert.

[VirusCheck]

Checks the page content for virus infections with clamav. A local clamav daemon must be installed.

clamavconf=filename

Filename of clamd.conf config file.

[PdfParser]

Parse PDF files for URLs to check. Needs the pdfminer Python package installed.

[WordParser]

Parse Word files for URLs to check. Needs the pywin32 Python extension installed.

Warnings

The following warnings are recognized in the ‘ignorewarnings’ config file entry:

file-missing-slash

The file: URL is missing a trailing slash.

file-system-path

The file: path is not the same as the system specific path.

ftp-missing-slash

The ftp: URL is missing a trailing slash.

http-cookie-store-error

An error occurred while storing a cookie.

http-empty-content

The URL had no content.

mail-no-mx-host

The mail MX host could not be found.

nntp-no-newsgroup

The NNTP newsgroup could not be found.

nntp-no-server

No NNTP server was found.

url-content-size-zero

The URL content size is zero.

url-content-too-large

The URL content size is too large.

url-effective-url

The effective URL is different from the original.

url-error-getting-content

Could not get the content of the URL.

url-obfuscated-ip

The IP is obfuscated.

url-whitespace

The URL contains leading or trailing whitespace.

See Also

linkchecker(1)

Author

Bastian Kleineidam <bastian.kleineidam [at] web.de>

Copyright

Copyright © 2000-2014 Bastian Kleineidam