There are a few simple and lazy ways to check for dead links. The methods to use depend on whether you want to check a list of links in a text file or you want to check for dead links within a website. We all know that checking for dead links manually by clicking each one of them is a very long and boring task. Thankfully I have found – after a very long search – a few incredibly handy URL checking scripts.


No more dead links

This short guide is split into two parts:

  1. Checking for Dead Links Within a Website
  2. Checking Links from a Text File

Finding dead links is an easy task with help from the tools described here. I’ve provided a brief usage guide to the desktop program Dead Link Checker (DLC) which checks the validity of links stored in a text file (example output files provided).

The next two pages explain a little more about the options available for checking the validity of URLs listed in either a web site or a text file. Two free downloads are available directly through JournalXtra, they are…

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