Posted by hass on April 7, 2008 at 9:34pm
The Link checker module extracts links from your content when saved and periodically tries to detect broken hypertext links by checking the remote sites and evaluating the HTTP response codes. It shows all broken links in the reports/logs section and on the content edit page, if a link check has been failed. An author specific broken links report is also available in "My Account".
Features:
- Selectively scan node types and comments
- Selectively scan custom blocks
- Scans CCK text and link fields in selected nodes
- Checks internal and by default external links
- Configurable link check intervals
- Updates permanently moved (301) links after specified link check fail count
- Unpublishes nodes after specified file not found (404) fail count
- Weblink nodes from Links Package module are supported
- Weblinks nodes from Weblinks module are supported
- Output created by input filters is supported
- Supported HTML elements: a, area, audio, embed, iframe, img, object, param, source, video
- Supported link protocols: http, https
System requirements:
- SQL server with subselect support (MySQL 5.0 or higher, PostgreSQL 7.4 or higher)
Known issues:
- Drupal 6.14 only: A critical core bug has been introduced by #193383: set_time_limit: Centralize calls and prevent warnings and errors that stops link checker from verifying links. Apply the available D6 hotfix in #111 or update to Drupal 6.15+ to fix your installation.
Project Information
- Maintenance status: Actively maintained
- Development status: Under active development
- Reported installs: 8393 sites currently report using this module. View usage statistics.
- Automated tests: Enabled
- Last modified: January 26, 2012
