NAME
linkcheckerrc - configuration file for LinkChecker
DESCRIPTION
linkcheckerrc is the default configuration file LinkChecker. The file
is written in an INI-style format.
SETTINGS
[checking]
threads=NUMBER
Generate no more than the given number of threads. Default
number of threads is 10. To disable threading specify a non-
positive 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
anchors=[0|1]
Check HTTP anchor references. Default is not to check anchors.
This option enables logging of the warning url-anchor-not-found.
Command line option: --anchors
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
warningregex==REGEX
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, for
example "This page has moved" or "Oracle Application Server
error".
Command line option: --warning-regex
warnsizebytes=NUMBER
Print a warning if content size info is available and exceeds
the given number of bytes.
Command line option: --warning-size-bytes
nntpserver=STRING
Specify an NNTP server for news: links. Default is the
environment variable NNTP_SERVER. If no host is given, only the
syntax of the link is checked.
Command line option: --nntp-server
checkhtml=[0|1]
Check syntax of HTML URLs with local library (HTML tidy).
Command line option: --check-html
checkhtmlw3=[0|1]
Check syntax of HTML URLs with W3C online validator.
Command line option: --check-html-w3
checkcss=[0|1]
Check syntax of CSS URLs with local library (cssutils).
Command line option: --check-css
checkcssw3=[0|1]
Check syntax of CSS URLs with W3C online validator.
Command line option: --check-css-w3
scanvirus=[0|1]
Scan content of URLs for viruses with ClamAV.
Command line option: --scan-virus
clamavconf=filename
Filename of clamd.conf config file.
Command line option: none
[filtering]
ignore=REGEX (MULTILINE)
Only check syntax of URLs matching the given regular
expressions.
Command line option: --ignore-url
nofollow=REGEX (MULTILINE)
Check but do not recurse into URLs matching the given regular
expressions.
Command line option: --no-follow-url
ignorewarnings=NAME[,NAME...]
Ignore the comma-separated list of warnings. See linkchecker -h
for the list of recognized 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
[authentication]
entry=REGEX USER PASS (MULTILINE)
Provide different user/password pairs for different link types.
Entries are a triple (link regular expression, username,
password), separated by whitespace.
If the regular expression matches, 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, authentication is
used/needed for http[s] and ftp links.
Command line option: -u, -p
[output]
interactive=[0|1]
Ask for URL if none are given on the commandline.
Command line option: --interactive
debug=STRING[,STRING...]
Print debugging output for the given loggers. Available loggers
are cmdline, checking, cache, gui, dns, thread and all.
Specifying all is an alias for specifying all available loggers.
Command line option: --debug
status=[0|1]
Control printing check status messages. Default is 1.
Command line option: --no-status
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/lib/standard-encodings.html.
Command line option: --output
verbose=[0|1]
If set log all checked URLs once. Default is to log only errors
and warnings.
Command line option: --verbose
complete=[0|1]
If set log all checked URLs, even duplicates. Default is to log
duplicate URLs only once.
Command line option: --complete
warnings=[0|1]
If set log warnings. Default is to log warnings.
Command line option: --no-warnings
quiet=[0|1]
If set, operate quiet. An alias for log=none. This is only
useful with fileoutput.
Command line option: --verbose
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
console output with output=none.
Command line option: --file-output
[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
LOGGER PARTS below.
Command line option: none
encoding=STRING
Valid encodings are listed in
http://docs.python.org/lib/node1.html. 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.
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=
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EXAMPLE
[output]
log=html
[checking]
threads=5
[filtering]
ignorewarnings=anchor-not-found
SEE ALSO
linkchecker(1)
AUTHOR
Bastian Kleineidam <calvin@users.sourceforge.net>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2000-2010 Bastian Kleineidam