Does anyone know if a link checker that is compatible with Umbraco 4 exists? I have seen one package, but it seems to check for broken links each time you publish a document. I will be installing this on a large site with hundreds of nodes. I'd like to know what's out there and what my options are.
Darren's Broken Link Checker (http://our.umbraco.org/projects/broken-link-checker) is the only tool that is integrated into umbraco that I'm aware of. It's a good package that should work well for you, even on a very large site because of the asynchronous way it checks links. You can watch an excellent (if barely audible) video at http://www.darren-ferguson.com/2010/2/4/screencast-broken-link-checker-for-umbraco.aspx
Your alternative would be to use a website crawling application/service to get periodic reports of link status. If an automated report were emailed every week with a list of broken links perhaps that would meet your needs?
It may not be necessary to use an umbraco package, as there are plenty of link checking tools available that work on many sites. http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html comes to mind as a desktop version that could be run before go-live and periodically afterwards.
I'm working on a package that will check all your links when you press a button (links are cached btw). In fact it checks more than just broken links. It also will check broken images. and in the future it will validate your site against w3c standards etc. It will be called Site Analyzer Like UmbImport there will be a free and a Pro (commercial )release. I don't know the price of a PRO product yet, but it isn't gonna break the bank.
Difference between Free and Pro will be that the free version only can scan a certain amount of nodes, The Pro version can scan (in theory) an unlimited amount of nodes, it can schedule scans, you can extend the checks by using a simple API and it will generatue reports.
I hope to have a preview release of the free version ready by the end of next month.
Probably not working for you now, but maybe nice to know that this is on someones radar.
Umbraco 4 links checker?
Hi Everyone,
Does anyone know if a link checker that is compatible with Umbraco 4 exists? I have seen one package, but it seems to check for broken links each time you publish a document. I will be installing this on a large site with hundreds of nodes. I'd like to know what's out there and what my options are.
Can anyone point me in the right direction here?
Thanks
Shufflemoomin
Darren's Broken Link Checker (http://our.umbraco.org/projects/broken-link-checker) is the only tool that is integrated into umbraco that I'm aware of. It's a good package that should work well for you, even on a very large site because of the asynchronous way it checks links. You can watch an excellent (if barely audible) video at http://www.darren-ferguson.com/2010/2/4/screencast-broken-link-checker-for-umbraco.aspx
Your alternative would be to use a website crawling application/service to get periodic reports of link status. If an automated report were emailed every week with a list of broken links perhaps that would meet your needs?
cheers,
doug.
It may not be necessary to use an umbraco package, as there are plenty of link checking tools available that work on many sites. http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html comes to mind as a desktop version that could be run before go-live and periodically afterwards.
Dan
Hi,
Currently the only link checker for Umbraco is this one http://our.umbraco.org/projects/broken-link-checker
I'm working on a package that will check all your links when you press a button (links are cached btw). In fact it checks more than just broken links. It also will check broken images. and in the future it will validate your site against w3c standards etc. It will be called Site Analyzer Like UmbImport there will be a free and a Pro (commercial )release. I don't know the price of a PRO product yet, but it isn't gonna break the bank.
Difference between Free and Pro will be that the free version only can scan a certain amount of nodes, The Pro version can scan (in theory) an unlimited amount of nodes, it can schedule scans, you can extend the checks by using a simple API and it will generatue reports.
I hope to have a preview release of the free version ready by the end of next month.
Probably not working for you now, but maybe nice to know that this is on someones radar.
Cheers,
Richard
Just thought I'd update this post to mention that the link for the broken link checker was moved at some time... The current location is now:
http://our.umbraco.org/projects/developer-tools/broken-link-checker
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