Program to check broken links?

[Freeman]

I need a program that will check for broken links on a website. There are a few thousand links so I don't really want to check them all by hand. Does anyone know of a program that will show you what page has the broken link, which link it is, what type of link, and anything else useful. It would help me a lot and might help me with not having to hand check over 10,000 links. JF

[Twey]

Try this one: http://validator.w3.org/checklink

[djr33]

You could also use PHP and file_exists(), if remote pages are allowed on your server.

But the above is easier if you don't need it to work within a page.

[Freeman]

What do you mean with not working within a page? Does this w3 validation tell you what page the broken links are on?

[eukhost.com]

You can also use this tool to check for broken links http://www.htmlhelp.org/tools/valet/

Google's sitemap program also provides detailed crawler reports which make it easy to fix issues like broken links.

[Freeman]

You can also use this tool to check for broken links http://www.htmlhelp.org/tools/valet/



I like this one better of the two. It shows you what page it is the links are on and then shows how they are broken. Its easy to use and has helped me quite a bit so far. Thanks for the help.

[Freeman]

On further use of the link valet http://www.htmlhelp.org/tools/valet/ I have come to the conclusion that it does not help me. I have scanned the site and it says that there are errors with pages missing with links. Things like 404 errors and the like. Could someone show me how to use this program to my benefit? Here is the site I am scanning: http://dev.wallawalla.edu/. I can't seem to find it on the page once it reports an error. I hope I have been clear with my problem. If anyone has the time to help me with this problem I would be greatly appreciative. Thanks for any help, JF