Spidy provides a simple CLI tool for finding dead links on a target URI endpoint. It allows its users to check the status of all links only within or if desired in combination with the health of external links. It reports the status and state of the links and if any errors encountered, allowing the ability to discover dead or bad links.

go get -u github.com/ardanlabs/spidy

• Environment Variables Spidy allows delpoyment of its binary using environment variables which sets the target and flags for which the tool will crawl.

  • SPIDY_HTTP_TIMEOUT This sets the maximum timeout for which the client http requests will made with in milliseconds

  • SPIDY_TARGET_URL This sets the target URL which the client target for crawling

  • SPIDY_EXTERNAL_LINKS This sets the external flags which ensures allows crawling hosts from that of the target

  • SPIDY_MAX_WORKERS This sets the maximum workers to use for its operation.

 > export SPIDY_HTTP_TIMEOUT=30000
 > export SPIDY_MAX_WORKERS=300
 > export SPIDY_TARGET_URL="https://ardanlabs.com"
 > export SPIDY_EXTERNAL_LINKS=false
 > spidy

• CLI Spidy provides two simple flags which sets the target URL to crawl and flips the flat to allow external links from the target host.

   // To crawl the giving url and no external links as well, using 120 workers
   spidy -url http://golang.org -workers 120 -timeout 30000

   // To crawl the giving url and external links as well
   spidy -url http://golang.org -externals true