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Check Output Links

Check Output Links

Cleanup ⚡ tab → Project Analysis group

Scans your generated output for broken links — internal file links and external http(s) URLs — and creates a CSV report. Because it checks the built output rather than the source, it finds exactly what your readers would hit.

  1. Build your target so there is output to scan.
  2. On the Cleanup ⚡ tab, in the Project Analysis group, click Check Output Links.
  3. Pick the output folder to scan (the picker starts at your project's output folder). All .htm/.html files in it are scanned, sub-folders included.
  4. Choose whether to also check external (http/https) links — this needs internet access and can take a while; choose No for offline use.
  5. A progress dialog shows the scan (you can cancel — a partial report is still produced).

What gets checked​

  • Links in a href, img src, link href, and script src.
  • Internal links are resolved against the files on disk; a missing file or folder is reported as Broken.
  • External URLs are de-duplicated and checked politely (a few in parallel, 10-second timeout, redirects followed). Servers that block robots (HTTP 403/405/429) are reported as Warning rather than broken.
  • Same-page #fragments, mailto:, tel:, javascript: and data: links are skipped.

The report​

  • If everything is fine you simply get "No broken links found!".
  • Otherwise a CSV report opens automatically with columns Source File; Link; Type; Status; Detail — only broken and warning rows are listed. Header comment lines record the scope, file count, and whether external checking was on. You are offered to save a copy.

Notes​

  • The tool is read-only — nothing in your project or output is changed.
  • For a source-level view of link health (broken xrefs, orphans and more), see Flare Diagnosis and Link Network Graph.

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