Comparison
This feature comparison is made on a best-effort basis. Please create a PR to fix outdated information.
| lychee | awesome_bot | muffet | broken-link-checker | linkinator | linkchecker | markdown-link-check | fink | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Language | Rust | Ruby | Go | JS | TypeScript | Python | JS | PHP |
| Async/Parallel |  | | | | | | | |
| JSON output | |  | | | |  1 | | |
| Static binary | | | | | | ️ | | |
| Markdown files | | | | | | | | |
| HTML files | | | | | | | | |
| Text files | | | | | | | | |
| Website support | | | | | | | | |
| Chunked encodings | | | | | | | | |
| GZIP compression | | | | | | | | |
| Basic Auth | | | | | | | | |
| Custom user agent | | | | | | | | |
| Relative URLs | | | | | | | | |
| Skip relative URLs | | | | | | | | |
| Include patterns | ️ | | | | | | | |
| Exclude patterns | | | | | | | | |
| Handle redirects | | | | | | | | |
| Ignore insecure SSL | | | | | | | | |
| File globbing | | | | | | | | |
| Limit scheme | | | | | | | | |
| Custom headers | | | | | | | | |
| Summary | | | | | | | | |
HEAD requests | | | | | | | | |
| Colored output | | | | | | | | |
| Filter status code | | | | | | | | |
| Custom timeout | | | | | | | | |
| E-mail links | | | | | | | | |
| Progress bar | | | | | | | | |
| Retry and backoff | | | | | | | | |
| Skip private domains | | | | | | | | |
| Use as library | | | | | | | | |
| Quiet mode | | | | | | | | |
| Config file | | | | | | | | |
| Recursion | | | | | | | | |
| Amazing lychee logo | | | | | | | | |
1 Other machine-readable formats like CSV are supported.