findBrokenGlass

About

This repo is a open source tool to check a connection status of URLs found from the input file, using Java. It returns "[code] url status" in each line.

Features

• Looking for the URLs in the input file
• Accepting over two input files
• Returning 200 code with Good status, 400 and 404 codes with Bad status
• Colouring the output by the status : Good - Green, Bad - Red, Redirect - Blue, Fail - Red, UnKnown - Gray
• Redirecting to followed location when it is 301, 307 and 308
• Checking a version of archived URLs using the WayBackMachine
• Checking whether Urls work with https or not
• Allow to pass directory paths and recursively process all children under that directory

New Update (Nov 3, 2020)

• Returning JSON format output (Oct,6 2020)
• Exit code, 0 or the number of the broken urls (Oct 6, 2020)
• Add Ignore feature to skip list of url in the file (Oct 20, 2020)
• Add Check Telescope feature (Nov 3,2020)

Getting Started

1. Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/eunbeek/findBrokenGlass.git

2. Run the UrlCheck.exe file in bin folder on CMD/PowerShell/Terminal

cd {cloneDirectory}/bin/[mac|window]/

Usage

Please see the appropriate guide for your CLI of choice:

CMD

This command returns a help message for the flag and the argument explanation.

UrlCheck help

You can type the input file name after tool name, then return the response code, URL and status in each line. This tool accepts multiple files and delimiters by space.

UrlCheck <fileName>

UrlCheck <fileName1> <fileName2>

You can type '--a' flag to allow checking for archived versions of URLs.

UrlCheck --a <fileName>

This '--s' flag change 'http' to 'https' in URLs and you can check whether url work with https or not.

UrlCheck --s <fileName>

This '--v' or '--version' flag return the current version.

UrlCheck --v 

This '--j' or '--json' flag return the JSON format result.

UrlCheck --j <fileName> 

This '-i' or '-ignore' flag ignores links found in the ignore file. This feature is for windows only

UrlCheck -i <fileName> <ignoreFileName>

This '-t' flag checks the latest 10 post links found in the telescope installed in local machine.

UrlCheck -t

PowerShell

This command returns a help message for the flag and the argument explanation.

./UrlCheck 

This '-t' flag checks the latest 10 post links found in the telescope installed in local machine.

./UrlCheck -t

Mac Terminal

java -jar UrlCheck.jar /m <fileName>

java -jar UrlCheck.jar /v

java -jar UrlCheck.jar /t

Library

https://github.com/java-native-access/jna