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I like linkchecker but the link below is a page that lists linkchecker, linklint, and a couple of other link checking programs. http://linkchecker.sourceforge.net/other.html Thomas On Monday 04 April 2011 18:10:47 you wrote: > Can someone point me in the direction of a good, robust broken link scanner > other than Xenu, which is not quite powerful or adaptable enough for my > needs. We are trying to get more serious about our content strategy in my > library and linking in various parts of our site is abysmal. Here's my > dream app... > > Web app that collects from a non-technical library staff user a base url > path under which to crawl and scan links. User creates the object which > includes a descriptive title, their email address, and some hidden > metadata, such as current creation date. The app crawls the links of said > URL and any children, ignoring other site urls not under the given path, > returns a report (web, pdf, csv, whatever) of page title/pageurl/broken > link text/broken link url/error code. Further, the app is hooked into > cron and runs a new report based off of the existing criteria every X > days. On X day, user gets an email with updated report. At login, user > has a table sort view of all of their objects and each object keeps a > record of reports. Stats on how many links per section, and frequency of > broken-ness (tracked over time) would be nice but not deal killer. From > the admin side of things we would need to be able to configure global > error codes to include/exclude, internal urls to exclude, timeout lengths, > depths, and websites to treat specially since they may not play well with > the crawler, proxy, whatever. Finally, these plus other settings might be > nice to override at a local object level admin-wise as well (i.e set a > shorter or longer day cycle, set a maximum depth to crawl, etc). > > It seems like something of this sort should exist, but I'm not finding > exactly what I want. The closest right now is link tiger, but I don't > want to set librarians loose on the whole site, just their targeted areas. > > Thoughts? > > W > -- ========================================== Thomas McMillan Grant Bennett Appalachian State University Operations & Systems Analyst P O Box 32026 University Library Boone, North Carolina 28608 (828) 262 6587 Library Systems Help Desk: https://www.library.appstate.edu/help/ ==========================================