I recently discovered a broken-link-checker Javascript library that a few minutes later was identifying broken links that I was not aware of, in the project that I’ve been working on.
This blog article is about broken-link-checker, an NPM dependency that you can use to find broken links, missing images, and so on in your web application.
Prerequisites
NodeJS & NPM – Setup tutorial here
Installation
npm install -g broken-link-checker
Run
- scan only the links on the current page
blc https://qa-practice.netlify.app- scan links recursively in the entire project (current page, other pages, and subpages; adding -ro flag)
blc https://qa-practice.netlify.app -ro- exclude external domains (adding -e flag)
blc https://qa-practice.netlify.app -roe- exclude specific domain URLs (e.g. Twitter and LinkedIn; using –exclude flag)
blc https://qa-practice.netlify.app -ro --exclude twitter --exclude linkedinNote: For additional options, you can run
blc --helpOutput
NOTE: you can use the tool as project dependency as well
I created a step by step tutorial HERE
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