Added Automated Mode to Link Checker

Posted: Saturday, November 16, 2024 at 02:32 PM | Categories: Node.js

After publishing my link checker utility, I realized I wanted the ability to write the utility's settings in a project folder so I could quickly scan links for that project.

I just published an update that enables Auto mode in the utility. With Auto mode, you:

Run the checklinks command the -s flag: checklinks -s. This causes the utility to prompt you for configuration settings as usual, but then writes all of your choices to a file called link-checker-config.json in the current folder. Once it completes writing the settings to the file, the utility exits.

The output looks like this:

┌──────────────────┐
│                  │
│   Link Checker   │
│                  │
└──────────────────┘

by John M. Wargo (https://johnwargo.com)

√ Target site URL ... http://localhost:8080
√ Number of concurrent requests; must be greater than zero ... 10
√ Timeout value (in milliseconds); must be greater than zero ... 5000
√ Select output options » Broken
√ Save output to file? ... yes
√ Output file root filename (no extension) ... link-checker-results
√ Output format » Markdown (.md)

Saving configuration to D:\dev\node\link-checker\link-checker-config.json

Next, run the checklinks command with the -a flag: checklinks -a

┌──────────────────┐
│                  │
│   Link Checker   │
│                  │
└──────────────────┘

by John M. Wargo (https://johnwargo.com)

Auto mode enabled
Starting scan...

--- scan activity here ---

Results successfully written to file: D:\dev\node\link-checker\link-checker-results.md
Opening report in Visual Studio Code

Scan Results
==============================
Scanned: 250 links
Broken: 5 links
==============================

I hope you like it.

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