light-mc-crawler

light-mc-crawler

Forked from https://github.com/github/lightcrawler

Crawl a website and run it through Google lighthouse, finding mixed content

npm install -s https://github.com/drewmcmillan/light-mc-crawler

light-mc-crawler --config light-mc-crawler-config.json

where light-mc-crawler-config.json looks something like this:

{
  "url": "https://www.example.com",
  "maxDepth": 2,
  "maxChromeInstances": 5,
  "limit": "/music/",
  "httpsOnly": true,
  "showHttpLinksDuring": false,
  "showHttpLinksAfter": true
}

This will crawl https://www.example.com and any pages coming off it with /music/ in the url.

Arguments

limit

Limits the crawling to urls containing a certain substring

httpsOnly

Converts any http links found into https

showHttpLinksDuring

Logs any http links found during the crawling

showHttpLinksAfter

Logs any http links found after the crawling

Example output

Http link on https://www.example.com/music
  http://www.example.com/music/resources/idt-sh/dancing
  http://www.example.com/music/resources/idt-sh/clubs
  http://www.example.com/music/musictime
  http://www.example.com/music/musictime
  http://www.example.com/music/10628994
  http://www.example.com/music/help-41670342

Mixed Content
https://www.example.com/music ✗ is-on-https - Does not use HTTPS
   http://www.petmd.com/sites/default/files/petmd-cat-happy-10.jpg
   http://www.argospetinsurance.co.uk/assets/uploads/2017/12/cat-pet-animal-domestic-104827.jpeg
https://www.example.com/music ✗ mixed-content - Some insecure resources can be upgraded to HTTPS

Enjoy!