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Excluding Links

lychee allows you to selectively check links using --include and --exclude parameters. Both accept regular expressions.

Here are some examples:

Terminal window
# Exclude all links that contain "example.com" and "example.org"
lychee --exclude example\.com --exclude example\.org


# Same as above, but using a single exclude parameter
lychee --exclude example\.(com|org)

Includes take precedence over excludes. You can use that fact to check only links that contain a specific string.

For example, if you want to check all links that contain the string twitter.com, you can use the following command:

Terminal window
lychee --exclude '.*' --include 'twitter\.com'

Do you have a bunch of URLs that you always want to exclude? You can add them to a .lycheeignore file in the root of your project.

.lycheeignore
https://www.zombo.com/
# This is a comment, which will be ignored
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
# Regex is also supported
https?:\/\/(www\.)?reddit\.com\/r\/(funny||videos)