Check Alive Bookmarks in Firefox?

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#1

Hi people.

I have a LOT of bookmarks collected in time in my Firefox Browser, but i have found that some of them are dead.

I was “googling” around and found that:

wget --spider --force-html -i bookmarks.html

Can check all the bookmarks if are online/offline, but where it saves the results?

So the question is: Someone knows an app to check my bookmarks online/offline state?

Thanks in advance! :slight_smile:

#2

Hi
Start with nohup and it will create a file called nohup.out which you
can browse.


nohup wget --spider --force-html -i bookmarks.html

You could also open another terminal and tail the file to see it
processing, ctrl c to exit


tail -f nohup.out

It’s just a text file so when it’s finished you can open with a text
editor.

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#3

Hmmm, thanks for the tip, but I was wondering if this command automatically updates the bookmarks.html file, so after it ends i can just replace the bookmarks with the new file ?

#4

On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:36:01 +0000, alexbariv wrote:

> Hmmm, thanks for the tip, but I was wondering if this command
> automatically updates the bookmarks.html file, so after it ends i can
> just replace the bookmarks with the new file ?

No, wget doesn’t output a new html file, it outputs the results of the
get requests.

You’ll want to look for a link checker and see if there’s one that
produces an output with the dead links not included (I’m not aware of one
that does).

Jim

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#5
  • alexbariv,

check the “CheckPlaces” add-on for Firefox.

HTH
Uwe

#6

Wooa!! Thanks a lot Uwe! Thats exactly what I was looking for! Thanks!!