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HTCHECK(1) FSF HTCHECK(1) NAME
ht://Check - Web site checker for dead/external links 2.0.0 SYNOPSIS
htcheck [-isvk] [-c configfile] [-D dbname] DESCRIPTION
ht://Check is more than a link checker. It is a console application written for Linux systems in C++ and derived from ht://Dig. It can retrieve information through HTTP/1.1 and store the information in a MySQL database, and it is particularly suitable for small Internet domains or Intranet. Its purpose is to help a webmaster manage one or more related sites: after a "crawl", ht://Check gives back very useful summaries and reports, including broken links, anchors not found, content-types and HTTP status codes summaries, etc. From version 1.2.3, ht://Check also performs accessibility checks in accordance with the principles of the University of Toronto's Open Accessibility Checks (OAC) project, allowing users to discover site-wide barriers like images without proper alternatives, missing titles, etc. ht://Check can also be used for Web structure analysis, as it stores information regarding links between HTML documents. OPTIONS
-v Verbose mode (more 'v's increment verbosity) -s Statistics (broken links, etc...) available -i Initialize the database (drop a previous db) -k Initialize the database (drop tables, keep the db) -c configfile Configuration file -D dbname Name of the database AUTHORS
Written by Gabriele Bartolini <angusgb@users.sourceforge.net> REPORT BUGS
Report bugs by using Sourceforge's bug tracker at: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=5071&atid=105071 or write down a note to the author. AVAILABILITY
The latest version of this distribution is available online from: http://htcheck.sourceforge.net/ COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Comune di Prato - Prato - Italy Some Portions Copyright (c) 1995-2003 The ht://Dig Group <www.htdig.org> Some Portions Copyright (c) 2008-2009 Devise.IT srl <http://www.devise.it/> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PAR- TICULAR PURPOSE. ht://Check 2.0.0 September 2009 HTCHECK(1)
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htdig - retrieve HTML documents for ht://Dig search engine SYNOPSIS
htdig [options] DESCRIPTION
Htdig retrieves HTML documents using the HTTP protocol and gathers information from these documents which can later be used to search these documents. This program can be referred to as the search robot. OPTIONS
- Get the list of URLs to start indexing from standard input. This will override the default parameter start_url specified in the con- fig file and the file supplied to the -m option. -a Use alternate work files. Tells htdig to append .work to database files, causing a second copy of the database to be built. This allows the original files to be used by htsearch during the indexing run. -c configfile Use the specified configfile instead of the default. -h maxhops Restrict the dig to documents that are at most maxhops links away from the starting document. This only works if option -i is also given. -i Initial. Do not use any old databases. Old databases will be erased before runing the program. -m filename Minimal run. Only index the URLs given in the file filename, ignoring all others. URLs in the file should be formatted one URL per line. -s Print statistics about the dig after completion. -t Create an ASCII version of the document database. This database is easy to parse with other programs so that information can be extracted from it for purposes other than searching. One could gather some interesting statistics from this database. Fieldname Value u URL t Title a State (0 normal, 1 not found, 2 not indexed, 3 obsolete) m Time of last modification reported by the server s Document Size in bytes H Excerpt of the document h Meta Description l Time of last rerievial L Count of links in the document or of outgoing links b Number of links to the document, also called incoming links or backlinks c Hop count of this document g Signature of this document (used to detect duplicates) e E-Mail address to use for a notification from htnotify n Date on which such notification is sent S Subject of the notfication message d The text of Incoming links pointing to this document (e.g. <a href="docURL">description</a>) A Anchors in the document (i.e. <A NAME=...) -u username:password Tells htdig to send the supplied username and password with each HTTP request. The credentials will be encoded using the 'Basic' authentication method. There HAS to be a colon (:) between the username and password. -v Verbose mode. This increases the verbosity of the program. Using more than 2 is probably only useful for debugging purposes. The default verbose mode (using only one -v) gives a nice progress report while digging. Please consult the section below on the exact format of the progress report. FORMAT OF THE PROGRESS REPORT GIVEN IN VERBOSE MODE A line is shown for each URL, with 3 numbers before the URL and some symbols after the URL. The first number is the number of docu- ments parsed so far, the second is the DocID for this document, and the third is the hop count of the document (number of hops from one of the start_url documents). Signification of the sybols printed after the url: "*" is printed for a link already visited "+" is printed for a new link just queued "-" is output for a link rejected for any of a number of reasons. To find out what those reasons are, you need to run htdig with at least 3 -v options, i.e. -vvv. If there are no "*", "+" or "-" symbols after the URL, it doesn't mean the document was not parsed or was empty, but only that no links to other documents were found within it. With more verbose output, these symbols will get interspersed in several lines of debugging output. FILES /etc/htdig/htdig.conf The default configuration file. /var/lib/htdig/db/db.docdb Stores data about each document (title, url, etc.). /var/lib/htdig/db/db.words.db, /var/lib/htdig/db/db.words.db_weakcmpr Record which documents each word occurs in. /var/lib/htdig/db/db.excerpts Stores start of each document to show context of matches. SEE ALSO
Please refer to the HTML pages (in the htdig-doc package) /usr/share/doc/htdig-doc/html/index.html and the manual pages htdigconfig(8) , htmerge(1) , htnotify(1) , htsearch(1) and rundig(1) for a detailed description of ht://Dig and its commands. AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Christian Schwarz, modified by Stijn de Bekker. It is updated and maintained by Robert Ribnitz and based on the HTML documentation of ht://Dig. 21 July 1997 htdig(1)