Link checker

Component ID

243795

Component name

Link checker

Component type

module

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The Link checker module extracts links from your content when saved and periodically tries to detect broken hypertext links by checking the remote sites and evaluating the HTTP response codes. It shows all broken links in the reports/logs section and on the content edit page, if a link check has been failed. An author specific broken links report is also available in "My Account".

Features:

  • Selectively scan node types and comments
  • Selectively scan custom blocks
  • Scans CCK text and link fields in selected nodes
  • Checks internal and by default external links
  • Parallel link checking with optional HTTPRL module
  • Configurable link check intervals
  • Can update permanently moved (301) links after specified link check fail count
  • Can unpublish nodes after specified file not found (404) fail count
  • Output created by input filters is supported
  • Supported HTML elements: a, area, audio, embed, iframe, img, object, param, source, video
  • Supported link protocols: http, https
  • D6: Weblink nodes from Links Package module are supported
  • D6: Weblinks nodes from Weblinks module are supported

System requirements:

  • SQL server with subselect support (MySQL 5.0 or higher, PostgreSQL 7.4 or higher)

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