Link Checker for Go/Hugo?

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No worries mate!

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There is also this - https://validator.w3.org/checklink

I donā€™t know how to integrate into a CI pipeline though.

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Just to add an additional alternative. Iā€™ve been looking for solutions using Python scripts, this is one https://pypi.python.org/pypi/LinkChecker

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Thatā€™s been my alternative to xenu since I switched to Linux. Works fine.

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I found nice link check tools written in golang.


And, I released GitHub Actions for above tools.


The following action runs hugo server & and muffet http://localhost:1313

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The htmltest tool by @wjdp has been working great for me for few years now. Iā€™d suggest everyone to try that out too.

I had tried muffet when I was testing various link checking solutions, but while it proved to be ā€œfastā€, it gave a loooot of false failures.

htmltest is fast too, and it is spot-on.

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I confirm. htmltest is in our CI workflow ā€¦

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All awesome news. Will definitely give this a shot. But still think there is value in checking within Hugo. Link checking is table stakes at this point in terms of content management systemsā€¦

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Iā€™d love it to be included. Iā€™m migrating a site to Hugo and it would be a big help.

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Peeking at its readme, the htmltest tool linked above is simple to install and use.

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Fair enough, but I really love the watch mode of Hugo, and internal link checking would fit right in there.

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Also it panics on my current site. Have not yet been able to narrow down what triggers it.

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Seems like an overkill for the watch mode and I know that speed is critical for @bep (and all Hugo users, of course). Itā€™s amazing that Hugo keeps getting faster and faster and faster.

I was thinking this would be something built into the hugo build command with a specific flag that would write broken links to a file for better content management.

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htmltest also doesnā€™t (yet) support baseUrl. Any other suggestions for link checkers? Iā€™ve switched to using {{< ref >}} for my internal links which picks up most, but it doesnā€™t seem to validate # references, which htmltest does.

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Sorry, Iā€™d like to embed the check of a url inside my blog when its online instead of checking the links while creation of the page. Lets say I have a link example.com and I want to embed a short notice inside my page if example.com is online.

How do I achieve such a thing in Hugo? For me itā€™s not relevant which tool I use, simplicity is preferred over rich features.

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Archiving this thread. @tinfoil-hat, youā€™ll need to search elsewhere, Hugo doesnā€™t have that functionality, and isnā€™t intended to. Good luck! :slight_smile: