Meowdown Links :cat:

Índice

• Meowdown Links
• Installation
• CLI Usage
• Library Usage
• Exceptions

Meowdown Links

meowdown-links is a library tool for extracting and validating markdown links.

Installation

Current release requires Node.js

npm install -g meowdown-links

CLI Usage

$ meowdown-links ./path/to/file.md

Optional arguments

--validate argument returns an href, md text, pathfile, number of line, response status and redirected from path (if there is one).

--stats argument returns total and unique links.

--validate --stats or --stats --validate arguments return total, unique, broken and redirected links.

Library Usage

Library usage example:

const meowDownLinks = require('meowDownLinks');

meowDownLinks('./text.md')
  .then(results => {
    // results => [{ href, text, line, file }]
  })
  .catch(error => {
    console.log(error.message);
  });

meowDownLinks('./folder/text.md', { validate: true })
  .then(results => {
    // results => [{ href, text, line, file, status, ok, originalHref }]
  })
  .catch(error => {
    console.log(error.message);
  });

meowDownLinks('./folder/dir')
  .then(results => {
    // results => [{ href, text, file, status, ok, originalHref }]
  })
  .catch(error => {
    console.log(error.message);
  });

API Reference

meowDownLinks(path, options)

• path: a string representing a relative or absolute path.
• options: an object for optional arguments for the api.
  • validate: a boolean for validating links.
  • stats: a boolean for requesting links stats.

By default, options will be false. If no arguments are set, the promise'll only return an array with an href, text and path to the extracted links file.

Exceptions

Is important to remember this library will only extract and validate urls to webpages. MD images are not supported.

Special feature

CLI messages are personalized.

• Working URLs are green.
• Broken URLs are red.
• Originally redirected URLs are cyan.

The message also includes a random ASCII cat art drawing.

Example: