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linkchecker — Client to check HTML documents and websites for broken links. More information: <https://linkchecker

Submitted by: @import:tldr-pages·Mar 2, 2026·

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Problem

How to use the linkchecker command: Client to check HTML documents and websites for broken links. More information: <https://linkchecker.github.io/linkchecker/man/linkchecker.html>.

Solution

linkchecker — Client to check HTML documents and websites for broken links. More information: <https://linkchecker.github.io/linkchecker/man/linkchecker.html>.

Find broken links on <https://example.com/>:

linkchecker {{https://example.com/}}

Also check URLs that point to external domains:

linkchecker --check-extern {{https://example.com/}}

Ignore URLs that match a specific regex:

linkchecker --ignore-url {{regex}} {{https://example.com/}}

Output results to a CSV file:

linkchecker --file-output {{csv}}/{{path/to/file}} {{https://example.com/}}

Code Snippets

Find broken links on <https://example.com/>

linkchecker {{https://example.com/}}

Also check URLs that point to external domains

linkchecker --check-extern {{https://example.com/}}

Ignore URLs that match a specific `regex`

linkchecker --ignore-url {{regex}} {{https://example.com/}}

Output results to a CSV file

linkchecker --file-output {{csv}}/{{path/to/file}} {{https://example.com/}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/linkchecker

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