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Xenu’s Link SleuthTM or Xenu, is an application program (app) that can check Web Sites for broken links. It acts like a crawler that checks every link within a particular domain and does link verification on every link it can find, including normal links, frames, images, plug-ins, backgrounds, scripts, style sheets, local image maps, and java applets. It shows a continuously updated list of URLs which can be sorted by different criterias. The application follows links to other pages within the Web Site, and checks the links on those pages as well, making it possible to check an entire Web Site for broken links in one session.
The app was written by Tilman Hausherr, and is a proprietary software available at no charge. The program runs on Microsoft Windows.
The app is named after Xenu, the Galactic Ruler from Scientology scripture.
Additional Features:
Xenu’s Link Sleuth has a simple, no-frills user-interface, and can help users understand how certain Web Sites are structured. It can re-check broken links later again sometime, this is useful for temporary network errors. It can generate a simple report format that can also be emailed. The application supports SSL websites (Secure Sockets Layered Web Sites). It can do partial testing of FTP, gopher and mail URLs. It can also detect and report redirected URLs. Xenu is also a lightweight application, with an executable file less than 1MB.
Summary of the Features:
- Simple, no-frills user-interface
- Can re-check broken links (useful for temporary network errors)
- Simple report format, can also be e-mailed
- Executable file smaller than 1MB
- Supports SSL websites (“https:// “)
- Partial testing of ftp, gopher and mail URLs
- Detects and reports redirected URLs
- Site Map
System requirements:
Microsoft Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7/8/10, WININET.DLL required (included with Internet Explorer). According to the program author, it doesn’t work on Windows 3.11, not even with Win32s. It’s not designed to run on Java, MacOS, Linux, Knoppix, Ubuntu, Beos, Palm, C64, SAP, AmigaOS, Blackberry, Symbian, iPhone or Android. It may run faultlessly under Fedora 13, Red Hat 8, Ubuntu, Kubuntu 14.04 and OS X via wine or WineBottler, and under Crossover on a Mac.
Documentation
After downloading, unzip and install the software. To check a site, click the toolbar icon on the left and enter a WWW address. If the address finishes with a directory name, don’t forget to put a / at the end or you will possibly get the whole parent directory crawled.
Incorrect:
http://www.host.com/user
Correct:
http://www.host.com/user/
You can also click the “browse” button to check a local HTML file. If you do not already use IE for browsing and are sitting behind a company firewall, don’t forget to configure your proxy before you start. If you are using a personal firewall (like ZoneAlarm or Outpost) you must enable Microsoft Internet Explorer by starting it, entering a URL and then “allowing” the application.
For a complete Documentation, visit the Author’s Website.
Download Links
Xenu’s Link Sleuth (Tilman Hausherr’s) Website
CNET WebSite
Xenu’s Link Sleuth v.1.3.8 [Altometa.com’s Google Drive]
Xenu’s Link Sleuth (beta version) [Altometa.com’s Google Drive]
