Hey Folks, today in this tutorial we will talk about a web application penetration testing tool called “broken-link-checker”. The code of this tool is written in Node JS language which comes with the below-mentioned features.
Features
- Support for many HTML elements and attributes; not only Support for relative URLs.
- WHATWG specifications-compliant HTML and URL parsing.
- Honor robot exclusions (robots.txt, headers, and rel), optionally.
- Detailed information for reporting and maintenance.
- URL keyword filtering with simple wildcards.
- Pause/Resume at any time.
Let’s test it !!
Required Dependencies
So first we have to install the “npm” dependency which is usually not pre-installed in any operating system. npm is the package manager for Node. js and the JavaScript coding language.
Good 🙂 !! We can easily install and configure any node js project using this utility like the one below.
Done 🙂 !! We think users will become experts by installing different tools with us. Well, the tool has been installed and you can now operate it by just dropping its name on the terminal.
Recursive and Ordered
Basically, we just have to name the website we want to hunt down and add filters to get the results recursively. Sometimes the external links of the website get expired and the owner of the website does not look at them even once the reason for this carelessness can reward the hackers.
Exclude Internal Links
We think that searching internal links are not useful. Suppose even if we get it, we will exclude the internal link search process which will reduce the search time and will give us quick and accurate results.
Finally 🙂 !! We have tested the rest of the features of this tool but they don’t seem useful so we gave up you can try them one yourself.
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