Find broken links on web sites

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* Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
* The story of Xenu’s Link Sleuth (TM)
* Bug List
* Future feature List
* Credits
* Links for further reading
* Trademarks

Wikipedia article about Xenu's Link Sleuth

Description

[Icon: Xenu with a fedora hat checking a link with his galactic looking glass]Xenu’s Link Sleuth (TM) checks Web sites for broken links. Link verification is done on “normal” links, images, frames, plug-ins, backgrounds, local image maps, style sheets, scripts and java applets. It displays a continously updated list of URLs which you can sort by different criteria. A report can be produced at any time.

Additional features:

  • Simple, no-frills user-interface
  • Can re-check broken links (useful for temporary network errors)
  • Simple report format, can also be e-mailed
  • Executable file smaller than 1MB
  • Supports SSL websites (”https:// “)
  • Partial testing of ftp and gopher sites
  • Detects and reports redirected URLs
  • Site Map

Download

By downloading you are acknowledging that:

  • You are using an up-to-date anti-virus software on your computer (so do I!)
  • You will not make me responsible for damages (lost time, crashed computer, etc)

System requirements: Microsoft Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7, WININET.DLL required (included with Internet Explorer). No, it won’t work on Windows 3.11, not even with Win32s. No, I won’t make a Java, MacOS, Linux, Knoppix, Ubuntu, Beos, Palm, C64, SAP, AmigaOS, Blackberry, Symbian or Android version. Don’t even ask! (However I have been told that it will run faultlessly under Red Hat 8 and Ubuntu via wine, and under Crossover on a Mac :-))

Ok, I have read all that, I want to download! (current version: 1.3.5 from December 5th, 2009)

Getting started:
Unzip it and install it wherever you want. To check a site, click the toolbar icon on the left and enter a WWW address. If the address finishes with a directory name, don’t forget to put a / at the end or you will possibly get the whole parent directory spidered.Incorrect:
http://www.host.com/user

Correct:
http://www.host.com/user/

You can also click the “browse” button to check a local HTML file. If you do not already use IE for browsing and are sitting behind a company firewall, don’t forget to configure your proxy before you start. If you are using a personal firewall (like ZoneAlarm or Outpost) you must enable Microsoft Internet Explorer by starting it, entering a URL and then “allowing” the application (you may also have to enable Xenu - see example for Norton Intenet Security). To find out what the software can do, simply try out the menu choices, the toolbar and the right mouse key. Or read this third-party manual, a bigger third-party manual with many pictures, a video, a third-party report (How I check over 6,000 links every seven to ten days), or a german description and another and a french description .

Good luck! If you find the software useful, please click here.

Test everything. Hold on to the good.
(1 Thessalonians 5:21)