From 1af6eee3d3a60cdd7800e0aef3581da9f572ef23 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gergely Polonkai Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 09:31:05 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add README file --- README.md | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README.md diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5f5d6d4 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +# Link checker + +This is a small link checker script intended for checking and listing +all links that can be found on the specified pages, and all other +pages linked from that site. + +The script also crawls the site, checking all links on the same +server. External links are checked but not crawled. + +A site is considered external if its hostname or even its scheme +(http:// instead of https://) doesn’t match with the base URL +(specified on the command line).