This isn’t so much a feature request (seems a little out of place for something like this to be built into Hugo), but does anyone have any suggestions for link checking when creating large, static sites with Hugo? I have chrome extensions for individual pages, and there are obviously services that c…

Just a note Xenu’s tool looks good for manual testing. htmltest is designed to be put into a CI/CD pipeline–for example a site being built in Travis or similar. I built it because the current standard (html-proofer in ruby) has some long run times on large sites, Go helps a lot with this. I use it n…

Sounds pretty awesome, will check it out!

[image] wjdp: GitHub - wjdp/htmltest: ✅ Test generated HTML for problems Sounds great, do you have a guide on how to set it up for a Hugo site? Xenu fans who now prefer Macs may want to check out Screaming Frog , free up to 500 links. No affiliation.

Yeah, so for a hugo site you should be able to use with minimal configuration. You can just run htmltest public to run over your built source, but if you want to configure the app futher you’ll need a config file. A .htmltest.yml in the root of your project with the following will get you going. D…

Do you know of any extensions that checks links on other pages than the current? Went full in with Screaming Frog. It also show missing meta descriptions etc.

No, got you wrong. I thought you want to check on visible page.

There is also this - https://validator.w3.org/checklink I don’t know how to integrate into a CI pipeline though.

Link Checker for Go/Hugo?

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Leo_Merkel August 27, 2017, 3:46pm 18

Why not use the chrome extension?

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Link Checker for Go/Hugo?

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