Xenu's Link Sleuth Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Show HN: I am launching the beta of Bernard, a link checker for your website

  I still haven't found a good modern equivalent to http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Show HN: I am launching the beta of Bernard, a link checker for your website

  Good list of free and open source link checkers here: https://www.devopsschool.com/blog/list-of-free-open-source-self-hosted-application-to-check-broken-links-url-check-on-web-page/ I've been using Xenu's Link Sleuth (https://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html) forever, but I should probably try some others out and see if there's something better now. Xenu's is also a funny throwback to the old web, sort of like... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• SEO Tools the best out there. Try these

  Xenu’s Link Sleuth Http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html Diagnostic, Technical SEO Winner of the ugliest-SEO-tool-on-the-planet award, Xenu is also one of the most useful. Crawl entire sites, find broken links, create sitemaps, and more. Source: about 1 year ago

• How to use unix linkchecker to thoroughly check any site

  If you want to a tool to crawl through your site looking for 404 or 500 errors, there are online tools (e.g. The W3C's online link checker), browser plugins for Firefox and Chrome, or windows programs like Xenu's Link Sleuth. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• What's a good basic web site's HTML checker?

  I used to use http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html to check my bookmarks.html and personal web sites, but it's outdated and no longer supported. Is there a free replacement that work well to show broken links, redirected links, etc.? Source: almost 2 years ago

• Users mad at me after I installed SSL on site, and images/content from external sources stopped displaying because of mixed content. To my knowledge, I either have to remove the SSL, or make sure all the third-party sites also have SSL installed. What is the best way to approach this next time?

  A good program for this is Xenu yes, it has a tad old scool look and feel, but it is an old school tool that still does a great job. It will crawl an entire site, and then when done, sort it by the "Address" column to find ll the ones that start with http:// and update. (Right click on the address, and choose "Properties" and you will see all URLs for your site that use it). Source: over 2 years ago