[wplug] OT: tool for checking a website for dead links?

[Brandon Kuczenski]

On Mon, 22 May 2006, Greg Akins wrote:

> On 5/22/06, Chris Winters <chris.winters at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On 5/22/06, Brandon Kuczenski <brandon at 301south.net> wrote:
>> > I'm looking for a tool (perl?) that can (recursively?) check a webpage
>> for
>> > dead or broken links and report them.  I imagine such a tool exists, and
>> a
>> > web search has turned up a number of small-distribution DIY type tools,
>> > but I was wondering if anyone here has used one and would recommend it.
>> 
>> An oldie but a goodie:
>> 
>> http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/col14.html
>> 
>> Chris

That looks like an excellent perl tutorial (bookmarked) but too 
challenging for the task at hand..

>
>
> I've used http://linkchecker.sourceforge.net/ and it works well.
>

Thanks for the tip - this looks cool.

-Brandon