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linkcheckerrc(5) linkcheckerrc(5)
NAME
linkcheckerrc - configuration file for LinkChecker
DESCRIPTION
linkcheckerrc is the configuration file for LinkChecker. The file is
written in an INI-style format.
The default file location is ~/.linkchecker/linkcheckerrc on Unix,
%HOMEPATH%\.linkchecker\linkcheckerrc on Windows systems.
SETTINGS
[checking]
cookiefile=filename
Read a file with initial cookie data. The cookie data format is
explained in linkchecker(1).
Command line option: --cookiefile
localwebroot=STRING
When checking absolute URLs inside local files, the given root
directory is used as base URL.
Note that the given directory must have URL syntax, so it must
use a slash to join directories instead of a backslash. And the
given directory must end with a slash.
Command line option: none
nntpserver=STRING
Specify an NNTP server for news: links. Default is the environ‐
ment variable NNTP_SERVER. If no host is given, only the syntax
of the link is checked.
Command line option: --nntp-server
recursionlevel=NUMBER
Check recursively all links up to given depth. A negative depth
will enable infinite recursion. Default depth is infinite.
Command line option: --recursion-level
threads=NUMBER
Generate no more than the given number of threads. Default num‐
ber of threads is 100. To disable threading specify a non-posi‐
tive number.
Command line option: --threads
timeout=NUMBER
Set the timeout for connection attempts in seconds. The default
timeout is 60 seconds.
Command line option: --timeout
aborttimeout=NUMBER
Time to wait for checks to finish after the user aborts the
first time (with Ctrl-C or the abort button). The default abort
timeout is 300 seconds.
Command line option: --timeout
useragent=STRING
Specify the User-Agent string to send to the HTTP server, for
example "Mozilla/4.0". The default is "LinkChecker/X.Y" where
X.Y is the current version of LinkChecker.
Command line option: --user-agent
sslverify=[0|1|filename]
If set to zero disables SSL certificate checking. If set to one
(the default) enables SSL certificate checking with the provided
CA certificate file. If a filename is specified, it will be used
as the certificate file.
Command line option: none
maxrunseconds=NUMBER
Stop checking new URLs after the given number of seconds. Same
as if the user stops (by hitting Ctrl-C or clicking the abort
buttin in the GUI) after the given number of seconds.
The default is not to stop until all URLs are checked.
Command line option: none
maxnumurls=NUMBER
Maximum number of URLs to check. New URLs will not be queued
after the given number of URLs is checked.
The default is to queue and check all URLs.
Command line option: none
maxrequestspersecond=NUMBER
Limit the maximum number of requests per second to one host.
allowedschemes=NAME[,NAME...]
Allowed URL schemes as comma-separated list.
[filtering]
ignore=REGEX (MULTILINE)
Only check syntax of URLs matching the given regular expres‐
sions.
Command line option: --ignore-url
ignorewarnings=NAME[,NAME...]
Ignore the comma-separated list of warnings. See WARNIGS for the
list of supported warnings.
Command line option: none
internlinks=REGEX
Regular expression to add more URLs recognized as internal
links. Default is that URLs given on the command line are
internal.
Command line option: none
nofollow=REGEX (MULTILINE)
Check but do not recurse into URLs matching the given regular
expressions.
Command line option: --no-follow-url
checkextern=[0|1]
Check external links. Default is to check internal links only.
Command line option: --checkextern
[authentication]
entry=REGEX USER [PASS] (MULTILINE)
Provide different user/password pairs for different link types.
Entries are a triple (URL regex, username, password) or a tuple
(URL regex, username), where the entries are separated by white‐
space.
The password is optional and if missing it has to be entered at
the commandline.
If the regular expression matches the checked URL, the given
user/password pair is used for authentication. The commandline
options -u and -p match every link and therefore override the
entries given here. The first match wins. At the moment, authen‐
tication is used/needed for http[s] and ftp links.
Command line option: -u, -p
loginurl=URL
A login URL to be visited before checking. Also needs authenti‐
cation data set for it.
loginuserfield=STRING
The name of the user CGI field. Default name is login.
loginpasswordfield=STRING
The name of the password CGI field. Default name is password.
loginextrafields=NAME:VALUE (MULTILINE)
Optionally any additional CGI name/value pairs. Note that the
default values are submitted automatically.
[output]
debug=STRING[,STRING...]
Print debugging output for the given loggers. Available loggers
are cmdline, checking, cache, gui, dns, thread and all. Speci‐
fying all is an alias for specifying all available loggers.
Command line option: --debug
fileoutput=TYPE[,TYPE...]
Output to a files linkchecker-out.TYPE,
$HOME/.linkchecker/blacklist for blacklist output.
Valid file output types are text, html, sql, csv, gml, dot, xml,
none or blacklist Default is no file output. The various output
types are documented below. Note that you can suppress all con‐
sole output with output=none.
Command line option: --file-output
log=TYPE[/ENCODING]
Specify output type as text, html, sql, csv, gml, dot, xml, none
or blacklist. Default type is text. The various output types
are documented below.
The ENCODING specifies the output encoding, the default is that
of your locale. Valid encodings are listed at
http://docs.python.org/library/codecs.html#standard-encodings.
Command line option: --output
quiet=[0|1]
If set, operate quiet. An alias for log=none. This is only use‐
ful with fileoutput.
Command line option: --verbose
status=[0|1]
Control printing check status messages. Default is 1.
Command line option: --no-status
verbose=[0|1]
If set log all checked URLs once. Default is to log only errors
and warnings.
Command line option: --verbose
warnings=[0|1]
If set log warnings. Default is to log warnings.
Command line option: --no-warnings
[text]
filename=STRING
Specify output filename for text logging. Default filename is
linkchecker-out.txt.
Command line option: --file-output=
parts=STRING
Comma-separated list of parts that have to be logged. See LOG‐
GER PARTS below.
Command line option: none
encoding=STRING
Valid encodings are listed in
http://docs.python.org/library/codecs.html#standard-encodings.
Default encoding is iso-8859-15.
color* Color settings for the various log parts, syntax is color or
type;color. The type can be bold, light, blink, invert. The
color can be default, black, red, green, yellow, blue, purple,
cyan, white, Black, Red, Green, Yellow, Blue, Purple, Cyan or
White.
Command line option: none
colorparent=STRING
Set parent color. Default is white.
colorurl=STRING
Set URL color. Default is default.
colorname=STRING
Set name color. Default is default.
colorreal=STRING
Set real URL color. Default is cyan.
colorbase=STRING
Set base URL color. Default is purple.
colorvalid=STRING
Set valid color. Default is bold;green.
colorinvalid=STRING
Set invalid color. Default is bold;red.
colorinfo=STRING
Set info color. Default is default.
colorwarning=STRING
Set warning color. Default is bold;yellow.
colordltime=STRING
Set download time color. Default is default.
colorreset=STRING
Set reset color. Default is deault.
[gml]
filename=STRING
See [text] section above.
parts=STRING
See [text] section above.
encoding=STRING
See [text] section above.
[dot]
filename=STRING
See [text] section above.
parts=STRING
See [text] section above.
encoding=STRING
See [text] section above.
[csv]
filename=STRING
See [text] section above.
parts=STRING
See [text] section above.
encoding=STRING
See [text] section above.
separator=CHAR
Set CSV separator. Default is a comma (,).
quotechar=CHAR
Set CSV quote character. Default is a double quote (").
[sql]
filename=STRING
See [text] section above.
parts=STRING
See [text] section above.
encoding=STRING
See [text] section above.
dbname=STRING
Set database name to store into. Default is linksdb.
separator=CHAR
Set SQL command separator character. Default is a semicolor (;).
[html]
filename=STRING
See [text] section above.
parts=STRING
See [text] section above.
encoding=STRING
See [text] section above.
colorbackground=COLOR
Set HTML background color. Default is #fff7e5.
colorurl=
Set HTML URL color. Default is #dcd5cf.
colorborder=
Set HTML border color. Default is #000000.
colorlink=
Set HTML link color. Default is #191c83.
colorwarning=
Set HTML warning color. Default is #e0954e.
colorerror=
Set HTML error color. Default is #db4930.
colorok=
Set HTML valid color. Default is #3ba557.
[blacklist]
filename=STRING
See [text] section above.
encoding=STRING
See [text] section above.
[xml]
filename=STRING
See [text] section above.
parts=STRING
See [text] section above.
encoding=STRING
See [text] section above.
[gxml]
filename=STRING
See [text] section above.
parts=STRING
See [text] section above.
encoding=STRING
See [text] section above.
[sitemap]
filename=STRING
See [text] section above.
parts=STRING
See [text] section above.
encoding=STRING
See [text] section above.
priority=FLOAT
A number between 0.0 and 1.0 determining the priority. The
default priority for the first URL is 1.0, for all child URLs
0.5.
frequency=[always|hourly|daily|weekly|monthly|yearly|never]
The frequence pages are changing with.
LOGGER PARTS
all (for all parts)
id (a unique ID for each logentry)
realurl (the full url link)
result (valid or invalid, with messages)
extern (1 or 0, only in some logger types reported)
base (base href=...)
name (<a href=...>name</a> and <img alt="name">)
parenturl (if any)
info (some additional info, e.g. FTP welcome messages)
warning (warnings)
dltime (download time)
checktime (check time)
url (the original url name, can be relative)
intro (the blurb at the beginning, "starting at ...")
outro (the blurb at the end, "found x errors ...")
MULTILINE
Some option values can span multiple lines. Each line has to be
indented for that to work. Lines starting with a hash (#) will be
ignored, though they must still be indented.
ignore=
lconline
bookmark
# a comment
^mailto:
EXAMPLE
[output]
log=html
[checking]
threads=5
[filtering]
ignorewarnings=http-moved-permanent
PLUGINS
All plugins have a separate section. If the section appears in the con‐
figuration file the plugin is enabled. Some plugins read extra options
in their section.
[AnchorCheck]
Checks validity of HTML anchors.
[LocationInfo]
Adds the country and if possible city name of the URL host as info.
Needs GeoIP or pygeoip and a local country or city lookup DB installed.
[RegexCheck]
Define a regular expression which prints a warning if it matches any
content of the checked link. This applies only to valid pages, so we
can get their content.
Use this to check for pages that contain some form of error message,
for example 'This page has moved' or 'Oracle Application error'.
Note that multiple values can be combined in the regular expression,
for example "(This page has moved|Oracle Application error)".
[SslCertificateCheck]
Check SSL certificate expiration date. Only internal https: links will
be checked. A domain will only be checked once to avoid duplicate warn‐
ings.
sslcertwarndays=NUMBER
Configures the expiration warning time in days.
[HtmlSyntaxCheck]
Check the syntax of HTML pages with the online W3C HTML validator. See
http://validator.w3.org/docs/api.html.
[HttpHeaderInfo]
Print HTTP headers in URL info.
prefixes=prefix1[,prefix2]...
List of comma separated header prefixes. For example to display
all HTTP headers that start with "X-".
[CssSyntaxCheck]
Check the syntax of HTML pages with the online W3C CSS validator. See
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/manual.html#expert.
[VirusCheck]
Checks the page content for virus infections with clamav. A local cla‐
mav daemon must be installed.
clamavconf=filename
Filename of clamd.conf config file.
[PdfParser]
Parse PDF files for URLs to check. Needs the pdfminer Python package
installed.
[WordParser]
Parse Word files for URLs to check. Needs the pywin32 Python extension
installed.
WARNINGS
The following warnings are recognized in the 'ignorewarnings' config
file entry:
file-missing-slash
The file: URL is missing a trailing slash.
file-system-path
The file: path is not the same as the system specific path.
ftp-missing-slash
The ftp: URL is missing a trailing slash.
http-cookie-store-error
An error occurred while storing a cookie.
http-empty-content
The URL had no content.
mail-no-mx-host
The mail MX host could not be found.
nntp-no-newsgroup
The NNTP newsgroup could not be found.
nntp-no-server
No NNTP server was found.
url-content-size-zero
The URL content size is zero.
url-content-too-large
The URL content size is too large.
url-effective-url
The effective URL is different from the original.
url-error-getting-content
Could not get the content of the URL.
url-obfuscated-ip
The IP is obfuscated.
url-whitespace
The URL contains leading or trailing whitespace.
SEE ALSO
linkchecker(1)
AUTHOR
Bastian Kleineidam <bastian.kleineidam@web.de>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2000-2014 Bastian Kleineidam
LinkChecker 2007-11-30 linkcheckerrc(5)
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