Dead links, huh!. Too many dead links? How do I test a bunch of URLs? Don't worry I got you, I recently released a nice, portable and easy to use URL Auditor. areyouok Its built using Go and leverages go routines (literally the best form of concurrency). One handy thing with AreYouOk is that its a standalone binary, so you don't need any package managers like or to install it. npm pip Linux (amd64) curl -LJO https://github.com/Bhupesh-V/areyouok/releases/latest/download/areyouok-linux-amd64 MacOS (amd64) curl -LJO https://github.com/Bhupesh-V/areyouok/releases/latest/download/areyouok-darwin-amd64 Windows curl -LJO https: thub.com areyouok latest areyouok-windows-amd64.exe //gi /Bhupesh-V/ /releases/ /download/ Or you can just directly download them from releases Once that's done, check if you have the latest version installed $ ./areyouok-linux-amd64 --version
AreYouOk v1.1.0 built on (26 Jan 2021) Using it is pretty straight-forward, AreYouOk accepts 3 optional arguments followed by a directory path 1. = type of files to scan for links -t The default value has been set to Markdown since a lot of OSS documentation & personal blogs are written in markdown these days. You can also scan HTML, or literally any valid text file!! 2. = list of files or directories to ignore for links ( , . ) -i node_modules git This is handy if you are sure that certain files or directories won't contain any URLs, plus this makes areyouok work quickly too! 3. = type of report to generate (available formats include , , & -r json html txt github. The most superior format is HTML which gives a visual perspective on all the URLs scanned (you can see this in the blog header as well) OK! Enough talking, lets see it in action on my repository til $ areyouok-linux-amd64 -i=_layouts,.git,_site,README.md,build.py,USAGE.md -r=txt ~/Documents/til/ We are ignoring folders: _layouts, .git, _site & files README.md, USAGE.md & build.py using the flag. -i The flag is used to specify the type of report to generate. -r Here is a demo This is good but a more precise to use is by adding it in your CI/CD workflow. AreYouOk Create a Github Action workflow in your repository with following contents name: Audit Links using AreYouOk on: workflow_dispatch: schedule: # At 06:00 AM, every 30 days - cron: '0 6 */30 * *' jobs: build: runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v2 - name: Download & Run AreYouOk run: |
          wget -q https://github.com/Bhupesh-V/areyouok/releases/latest/download/areyouok-linux-amd64
          chmod +x areyouok-linux-amd64
          ./areyouok-linux-amd64 -i=_layouts,.git,_site,README.md,build.py,USAGE.md -r=github - name: Create Issue uses: peter-evans/create-issue-from-file@v2 with: title: AreYouOk URL Health Report content-filepath: ./report.github - name: Cleanup run: rm report.github Our workflow will execute every 30 days then downloads a fresh copy of areyouok using curl & executes it inside the repo. Note the report format is github here. Its largely HTML but is compatible with GitHub's commonmark markdown renderer. Make sure you set the executable permissions on areyouok once downloaded Our action uses the action which is used to report back the results to user via github issues. peter-evans/create-issue-from-file This is how it looks like You can see the generated . Also the issue here Action Summary And there you have it, no more dead 💀 links! Who is AreYouOk made for? With packages comes documentation which needs to be constantly updated & checked for dead/non-functioning URLs. OSS Package Maintainers. If you are someone who writes countless tutorials & owns the source for your website, Use areyouok to make sure your blogs don't contain any non-functioning URLs. Tech Bloggers. Literally anyone who wants to check a bunch of URLs for being dead or not, SEO experts? Previously published at https://bhupesh-v.github.io/areyouok-keep-your-urls-healthy-github-actions-golang/

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