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brkn-cli 
Yet another broken link checker CLI.
Install
$ npm install --global brkn-cli
Prerequisites
This package depends on brkn.
Usage
$ brkn <url|file...> [--attr [html attribute...]] [--base <hostname (w/ protocol)>] [--verbose]
Options
--attr, -a The attributes to search for (space separated if more than one) (default: href src)
--base, -b The base URL (needed to resolve relative URLs; files only)
--verbose, -v Run in verbose mode
--help Show the help screen
--version Show version number
Examples
$ brkn https://httpbin.org
$ brkn ./fixtures/page1.html ./fixtures/page2.html --base "https://mywebsite.com"
$ brkn ./fixtures/*.html --base "https://mywebsite.com" --verbose
Related
- brkn - API
License
MIT © Gabriel Mangiurea
FAQs
Yet another broken link checker CLI
The npm package brkn-cli receives a total of 5 weekly downloads. As such, brkn-cli popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that brkn-cli demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 23 Apr 2017
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