Dead links, huh!. Too many dead links? How do I test a bunch of URLs? Donโt worry I got you, I recently release areyouok a nice, portable and easy to use URL Auditor. Its built using Go and leverages go routines (literally the best form of concurrency).
One handy thing with AreYouOk is that its a standalone binary, so you donโt need any package managers like npm
or pip
to install it.
- Linux (amd64)
curl -LJO https://github.com/Bhupesh-V/areyouok/releases/latest/download/areyouok-linux-amd64
- MacOS (amd64)
curl -LJO https://github.com/Bhupesh-V/areyouok/releases/latest/download/areyouok-darwin-amd64
- Windows
curl -LJO https://github.com/Bhupesh-V/areyouok/releases/latest/download/areyouok-windows-amd64.exe
Or you can just directly download them from releases
Once thatโs done, check if you have the latest version installed
$ ./areyouok-linux-amd64 --version
AreYouOk v1.1.0 built on (26 Jan 2021)
Using it is pretty straight-forward, AreYouOk accepts 3 optional arguments followed by a directory path
-t
type of files to scan for links
The default value has been set to Markdown since a lot of OSS documentation & personal blogs are written in markdown these days. You can also scan HTML, or literally any valid text file!!-i
list of files or directories to ignore for links (node_modules
,.git
)
This is handy if you are sure that certain files or directories wonโt contain any URLs, plus this makes areyouok work quickly too!-r
type of report to generate (available formats include json, html, txt & github)
The most superior format is HTML which gives a visual perspective on all the URLs scanned (you can see this in the blog header as well)
OK! Enough talking, let's see it in action on my til repository
$ areyouok-linux-amd64 -i=_layouts,.git,_site,README.md,build.py,USAGE.md -r=txt ~/Documents/til/
We are ignoring folders: _layouts
, .git
, _site
& files README.md
, USAGE.md
& build.py
using the i
flag.
The r
flag is used to specify the type of report to generate.
Here is a demo
This is good but a more precise to use AreYouOk is by adding it to your CI/CD workflow.
Create a Github Action workflow in your repository with the following contents
name: Audit Links using AreYouOk
on:
workflow_dispatch:
schedule:
# At 06:00 AM, every 30 days
- cron: '0 6 */30 * *'
jobs:
build:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v2
- name: Download & Run AreYouOk
run: |
wget -q https://github.com/Bhupesh-V/areyouok/releases/latest/download/areyouok-linux-amd64
chmod +x areyouok-linux-amd64
./areyouok-linux-amd64 -i=_layouts,.git,_site,README.md,build.py,USAGE.md -r=github
- name: Create Issue
uses: peter-evans/create-issue-from-file@v2
with:
title: AreYouOk URL Health Report
content-filepath: ./report.github
- name: Cleanup
run: rm report.github
Our workflow will execute every 30 days then downloads a fresh copy of areyouok using curl & executes it inside the repo. Note the report format is github
here. It's largely HTML but is compatible with GitHubโs commonmark markdown renderer.
Make sure you set the executable permissions on areyouok once downloaded
Our action uses the peter-evans/create-issue-from-file action which is used to report back the results to user via github issues. This is how it looks like
You can see the generated issue here. Also the Action Summary
And there you have it, no more dead ๐๏ธ links!
Top comments (2)
Well alternatives exists everywhere ๐
I discovered lychee only when i released AreYouOk initially would eventually add more features