If you have to do things over and over again, it’s a good idea to use a tool to make things easier. Windows is a bit limited (or very – when compared to Linux) when it comes to batch file scripts and “wget” is limited to what it can do right out the box, so I sat down and wrote a few command line tools to help me with some of the website checks that I like to do.
The tools I included in this set can do the following:
- Check the result codes for a URL (and follow in the case of a redirect) – or for a list of URLs
- Create a list of the links found on a URL (or just particular ones)
- Create a list of the links and anchor texts found on a URL (or just particular ones)
- Create a simple keyword analysis of the indexable content on a URL
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