urlchecker-action

A GitHub action to collect and check URLs in a project (code and documentation). The action aims at detecting and reporting broken links.

How to use it?

A set of examples are included in the examples folder. A few detailed examples are also included below. Note that examples always reference the master branch, however you should change them to reference a release.

Example with Checkout

For most use cases, you will want to use the git repository that is being checked for a GitHub actions, and we do this by way of the actions/checkout action.

name: Check URLs

on: [push]

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
    - name: urls-checker
      uses: urlstechie/urlchecker-action@master
      with:
        # A subfolder or path to navigate to in the present or cloned repository
        subfolder: docs

        # A comma-separated list of file types to cover in the URL checks
        file_types: .md,.py,.rst

        # Choose whether to include file with no URLs in the prints.
        print_all: false

        # The timeout seconds to provide to requests, defaults to 5 seconds
        timeout: 5

        # How many times to retry a failed request (each is logged, defaults to 1)
        retry_count: 3

        # A comma separated links to exclude during URL checks
        exclude_urls: https://github.com/SuperKogito/URLs-checker/issues/1,https://github.com/SuperKogito/URLs-checker/issues/2

        # A comma separated patterns to exclude during URL checks
        exclude_patterns: https://github.com/SuperKogito/Voice-based-gender-recognition/issues

        # choose if the force pass or not
        force_pass : true

Note that as of version 0.2.2, references to white_listed_* have been changed to exclude_* to be consistent with the include_* variables.

Example with Custom Clone

It could, however, be the case that you've set up a repository with one or more uses of the URLChecker that must clone one or more repos (possibly with varying branches) before doing the check. In this case, you might want to define git_path and branch for each section. An example is below:

name: Check URLs

on: [push]

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
    - name: URLs-checker
      uses: urlstechie/urlchecker-action@master
      with:
        # A project to clone. If not provided, assumes already cloned in the present working directory.
        git_path: https://github.com/urlstechie/URLs-checker-test-repo

        # If a git_path is defined to clone, clone this branch (defaults to master)
        branch: devel

        # A subfolder or path to navigate to in the present or cloned repository
        subfolder: docs

        # Delete the cloned repository after running URLchecked (default is false)
        cleanup: true

        # A comma-separated list of file types to cover in the URL checks
        file_types: .md,.py,.rst

        # Choose whether to include file with no URLs in the prints.
        print_all: false

        # Choose whether to print a more verbose end summary with files and broken URLs.
        verbose: true

        # The timeout seconds to provide to requests, defaults to 5 seconds
        timeout: 5

        # How many times to retry a failed request (each is logged, defaults to 1)
        retry_count: 3

        # A comma separated links to exclude during URL checks
        exclude_urls: https://github.com/SuperKogito/URLs-checker/issues/1,https://github.com/SuperKogito/URLs-checker/issues/2

        # A comma separated patterns to exclude during URL checks
        exclude_patterns: https://github.com/SuperKogito/Voice-based-gender-recognition/issues

        # A comma separated list of file patterns (direct paths work as well) to exclude
        exclude_files: README.md,/github/workspace/_config.yml

        # numbers of workers to run in parallel (defaults to 9 if unset)
        workers: 4

        # choose if the force pass or not
        force_pass: true

Inputs

Details

Hidden File Types

If you need to specify a file_types pattern to include hidden files, you'll need a .* pattern that is provided in the context of a comma separated list, for example:

file_types: '.*,'

If there is another pattern or variable specification that you'd like to see an example of here, please open an issue.

Demo

• Using version > 0.1.4

  

• Using version =< 0.1.4

  

Support

Do you have a question or an issue? Please open an issue and we can help! The following communities are using the url checker! You can look here for examples or inspiration. If you want to add your community, please let us know with an issue.