HTMLProofe(1)

🌸 htmlproofer(1) 🌸

okay bestie, welcome to the User commands corner of your manual, section 1, and the star of the show is htmlproofer. she's here, she's ready, and she's gonna validate your HTML like it's her whole personality. 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

htmlproofer — validate rendered HTML files 💖

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

htmlproofer directory [options]

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so htmlproofer is literally a whole set of tests to validate HTML output. these tests check if image references are legitimate, if they have alt tags, if internal links are working, and so on. HTMLProofer can run on a file, a directory, an array of directories, or an array of links. below is a mostly comprehensive list of checks that it can perform, and yes she ate. 🔥

Images (<img> elements)

• Whether all images have alt tags
• Whether internal image references are not broken
• Whether external images are showing
• Whether images are HTTPS

Links (<a>, <link> elements)

• Whether internal links are working
• Whether internal hash references (#linkToMe) are working
• Whether external links are working
• Whether links are HTTPS
• Whether CORS/SRI is enabled

Scripts (<script> elements)

• Whether internal script references are working
• Whether external scripts are loading
• Whether CORS/SRI is enabled

Favicon

• Whether favicons are valid.

OpenGraph

• Whether the images and URLs in the OpenGraph metadata are valid.

HTML

• Whether your HTML markup is valid.

This is done via Nokogiri to ensure well-formed markup.

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

listed below are the command line options for htmlproofer, and bestie there are a LOT of them, so buckle up, we're going through every single one no cap:

• --allow-missing-href — don't flag tags missing an href attribute. this is the default for HTML5.
• --allow-hash-href — ignores href="#".
• --as-links — assumes that PATH is a comma-separated array of links to check.
• --alt-ignore image1,[image2,...] — a comma-separated list of Strings or RegExps containing images whose missing alt attributes are safe to ignore.
• --assume-extension — automatically add extension (e.g. .html) to file paths, to allow extensionless URLs (as supported by Jekyll 3 and GitHub Pages).
• --checks-to-ignore check1,[check2,...] — an array of Strings indicating which checks not to perform.
• --check-external-hash — checks whether external hashes exist (even if the webpage exists). this slows the checker down. 😭
• --check-favicon — enables the favicon checker.
• --check-html — enables HTML validation errors from Nokogiri.
• --check-img-http — check, that images use HTTPS.
• --check-opengraph — enables the Open Graph checker.
• --check-sri — check that <link> and <script> external resources do use SRI.
• --directory-index-file filename — sets the file to look for when a link refers to a directory. defaults to index.html.
• --disable-external — don't run the external link checker, which can take a lot of time. she's saving you from the waiting game fr fr.
• --empty-alt-ignore — if true, ignores images with empty alt attribues.
• --error-sort sort — defines the sort order for error output. can be :path, :desc, or :status. defaults to :path.
• --enforce-https — fails if a link is not marked as HTTPS.
• --extension ext — the extension of HTML files including the dot. defaults to .html.
• --external_only — only check for problems with external references.
• --file-ignore file1,[file2,...] — a comma-separated list of Strings or RegExps containing file paths that are safe to ignore.
• --help — print this usage information on the command line.
• --http-status-ignore 123,[xxx, ...] — a comma-separated list of numbers representing status codes to ignore.
• --internal-domains domain1,[domain2,...] — a comma-separated list of Strings containing domains that will be treated as internal urls.
• --report-invalid-tags — ignore errors from --check-html associated with unknown markup.
• --report-missing-names — ignore errors from --check-html associated with missing entities.
• --report-script-embeds — ignore errors from --check-html associated with <script>s.
• --log-level level — sets the logging level, as determined by Yell. one of :debug, :info, :warn, :error, or :fatal. defaults to :info.
• --only-4xx — only reports errors for links that fall within the 4xx status code range
• --storage-dir directory — directory where to store the cache log. defaults to tmp/.htmlproofer.
• --timeframe time — a string representing the caching timeframe.
• --typhoeus-config string — JSON-formatted string of Typhoeus config. it will override the html-proofer defaults.
• --url-ignore link1,[link2,...] — a comma-separated list of Strings or RegExps containing URLs that are safe to ignore. it affects all HTML attributes. non-HTTP(S) URIs are always ignored.
• --url-swap re:string,[re:string,...] — a comma-separated list containing key-value pairs of RegExp => String. it transforms URLs that match RegExp into String via gsub. the escape sequences \: should be used to produce literal :s.'

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🌈 Special usage cases 🌈

for options which require an array of input, values can be surrounded by quotes. don't use any spaces. for example, to exclude an array of HTTP status code:

htmlproofer --http-status-ignore 999,401,404 ./out

for options like --url-ignore, which require an array of regular expressions, the following syntax works:

htmlproofer --url-ignore /www.github.com/,/foo.com/ ./out

the --url-swap switch is a bit special, since one will pass in a pair of RegEx:String values. the escape sequences \: should be used to produce literal :. htmlproofer will figure out what you mean. she's smart like that. 🧚

htmlproofer --url-swap wow:cow,mow:doh --extension .html.erb --url-ignore www.github.com ./out

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💜 AUTHORS 💜

the program author is Garen Torikian.

this manual page page was written by Daniel Leidert <daniel.leidert@wgdd.de> for the Debian distribution (but may be used by others).

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okay that's the whole vibe, bestie 🫶 this is HTMLProofe(1) from 2019-03-24, and you just read the entire thing, main character energy fr. go forth and validate. periodt. 💖✨🎀