How to install and run linkcheker in Linux and Windows

Reference : https://linkchecker.github.io

Linux

## To install linkchecker on a Linux environment with python3 & pip3 [root@localhost]# pip3 install linkchecker WARNING: Running pip install with root privileges is generally not a good idea. Try `pip3 install --user` instead. Collecting linkchecker Cache entry deserialization failed, entry ignored Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/f0/b8/a0d3fc5e64c5146bec9013aef4a894d8888244abd82c7b7d3bd0abdc90a3/LinkChecker-10.0.1-py3-none-any.whl (267kB) 100% |████████████████████████████████| 276kB 4.1MB/s Collecting requests>=2.4 (from linkchecker) Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/29/c1/24814557f1d22c56d50280771a17307e6bf87b70727d975fd6b2ce6b014a/requests-2.25.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (61kB) 100% |████████████████████████████████| 61kB 9.9MB/s Collecting dnspython>=2.0 (from linkchecker) Cache entry deserialization failed, entry ignored Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/f5/2d/ae9e172b4e5e72fa4b3cfc2517f38b602cc9ba31355f9669c502b4e9c458/dnspython-2.1.0-py3-none-any.whl (241kB) 100% |████████████████████████████████| 245kB 5.0MB/s Collecting pyxdg (from linkchecker) Cache entry deserialization failed, entry ignored Cache entry deserialization failed, entry ignored Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/ea/13/de39ddf4f9f9cea0c7684cd54a50d79c97ea99c9f6aed798fd13d0bd4609/pyxdg-0.27-py2.py3-none-any.whl (49kB) 100% |████████████████████████████████| 51kB 10.5MB/s Collecting beautifulsoup4 (from linkchecker) Cache entry deserialization failed, entry ignored Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/d1/41/e6495bd7d3781cee623ce23ea6ac73282a373088fcd0ddc809a047b18eae/beautifulsoup4-4.9.3-py3-none-any.whl (115kB) 100% |████████████████████████████████| 122kB 9.5MB/s Collecting chardet<5,>=3.0.2 (from requests>=2.4->linkchecker) Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/19/c7/fa589626997dd07bd87d9269342ccb74b1720384a4d739a1872bd84fbe68/chardet-4.0.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (178kB) 100% |████████████████████████████████| 184kB 6.4MB/s Collecting certifi>=2017.4.17 (from requests>=2.4->linkchecker) Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/5e/a0/5f06e1e1d463903cf0c0eebeb751791119ed7a4b3737fdc9a77f1cdfb51f/certifi-2020.12.5-py2.py3-none-any.whl (147kB) 100% |████████████████████████████████| 153kB 7.6MB/s Collecting urllib3<1.27,>=1.21.1 (from requests>=2.4->linkchecker) Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/23/fc/8a49991f7905261f9ca9df5aa9b58363c3c821ce3e7f671895442b7100f2/urllib3-1.26.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl (137kB) 100% |████████████████████████████████| 143kB 8.2MB/s Collecting idna<3,>=2.5 (from requests>=2.4->linkchecker) Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/a2/38/928ddce2273eaa564f6f50de919327bf3a00f091b5baba8dfa9460f3a8a8/idna-2.10-py2.py3-none-any.whl (58kB) 100% |████████████████████████████████| 61kB 6.8MB/s Collecting soupsieve>1.2; python_version >= "3.0" (from beautifulsoup4->linkchecker) Cache entry deserialization failed, entry ignored Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/02/fb/1c65691a9aeb7bd6ac2aa505b84cb8b49ac29c976411c6ab3659425e045f/soupsieve-2.1-py3-none-any.whl Installing collected packages: chardet, certifi, urllib3, idna, requests, dnspython, pyxdg, soupsieve, beautifulsoup4, linkchecker Successfully installed beautifulsoup4-4.9.3 certifi-2020.12.5 chardet-4.0.0 dnspython-2.1.0 idna-2.10 linkchecker-10.0.1 pyxdg-0.27 requests-2.25.1 soupsieve-2.1 urllib3-1.26.3 ## script location /usr/local/bin/linkchecker ## test run/usr/local/bin/linkchecker https://www.myfaqbase.com

Windows

## assuming pip3 already installed in your Windows computer pip3 install linkchecker ## the binary for the user is located at Directory of C:\Users\<yourusername>\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python38\Scripts 01/18/2021 10:18 PM 25,002 linkchecker 1 File(s) 25,002 bytes ## test run with output to file with html format cd C:\Users\<yourusername>\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python38\Scripts python3 linkchecker -F html https://www.myfaqbase.com the output will be in linkchecker-out.html