GoURLsCheckerCLI

README

GO URLs CHECKER CLI

Description: This is a basic URL checker written in GO. The app allows users to pass in a file name as a command-line argument, then it would extract all valid URLs and run status check on those urls.

Features

1. Display help panel by not include any argument

    ./linkDetector
   

2. Display current version using -v or -version flag

    ./linkDetector -v or -version
   

3. Check multiple files:

    //For paths that contain space, simply wrap the path in quotes
    ./linkDetector check -f [file-path-1] [file-path-2] ... [file-path-nth]
   

4. Check all files in single or multiple directories:

    //For paths that contain space, simply wrap the path in quotes
    ./linkDetector check -d [directory-path-1] [directory-path-2] ... [directory-path-nth]
   

5. Allows user to pass glob pattern as argument:
   Example: Uses as a standalone, The command would be applied to the current directory of the executable file

    ./linkDetector -g *.html
   

   Example: Uses with -d flag

    //The glob pattern needs to be the last argument
    ./linkDetector check -d -g "Absolute\Path\To\Your\Directory" *.txt
   

6. Create report file by adding -r flag:

    ./linkDetector check -f -r [file-path]
   

    ./linkDetector check -d -r [directory-path]
   

7. Use custom User-Agents with the -u flag:

    ./linkDetector check -u [User-Agent string] -f [file-path]
   

   an example using a Firefox User-Agent:

    ./linkDetector check -u "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:81.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/81.0" -f [file-path]
   

8. Ignore a list of urls:

    ./linkDetector check -i [file-path-ignore-list] [file-path]
   

   A valid ignore list will have a # for comments and http/https links For example:

   # ignore the canadian google links
   https://google.ca
   # this link wont be ignore https://netflix.com
   https://www.spotify.com/
   

9. Check the latest 10 post of Telescope posts

  ./linkDetector check -t 

Note: the order of flags does not matter but all flags need to follow main command and before any file path / directory path arguments