linbot - WWW site link checker

linbot is a python program that allows webmasters to: view the structure of a site; track down broken links; find potentially outdated HTML pages; list links pointing to external sites; view portfolio of inline images; and do all this periodically and without user intervention. Results are displayed in a set of HTML pages.

Warning: I've found linbot to not be robust. It fails on fairly simple HTML pages. However, it is actively maintained so it should improve over time.

Index

Debian customizations

Wrapper script: linbot is not called directly. Instead, I wrote a simple shell program that sets/modifies the environment variable PYTHONPATH to include the configuration file /etc/linbot/config.py. The actual executable is placed in the /usr/lib/linbot/python directory.
Inclusion of extra files in upstream distribution: I included http://starship.skyport.net/crew/marduk/linbot/docs.html and http://starship.skyport.net/crew/marduk/linbot/linbot.gif, http://starship.skyport.net/crew/marduk/linbot/navbar.gif, and http://starship.skyport.net/crew/marduk/linbot/blackbar.gif along with the main upstream source file http://starship.skyport.net/crew/marduk/linbot/linbot-0.8.tar.gz.
Normal Debian file layout: At the suggestion of Gregor Hoffleit (the current Debian python package maintainer), I have placed the python packages that come with linbot into the directory /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/linbot. This follows Gregor's recommendation in /doc/python/README.Debian.gz.

Authors

marduk <marduk@starship.skyport.net> is the primary author. Oleg Broytmann <phd@comus.ru> contributed the man page. Jean Pierre LeJacq <jplejacq@quoininc.com> is the Debian package maintainer.