Add a parameter to only report on failing links / or add a summary

[rajbos]

I'm checking a lot of links on a run, and finding the failed items in the logs becomes cumbersome (I can search for [x] in the text).

I would like to either have a setting that only shows information about the failed links (and thus hides all the stuff that worked).

-- or --

Add a summary of failed links at the end of the log (maybe a table with file / link / statuscode). That would finding the issues a lot easier.

[gaurav-nelson]

@rajbos You can use the use-quiet-mode variable PS https://github.com/gaurav-nelson/github-action-markdown-link-check#custom-variables

[rajbos]

I have that configured, but still super verbose. See my workflow run here: https://github.com/rajbos/rajbos.github.io/runs/5576935018?check_suite_focus=true

[ewels]

Came here looking for the same thing - the logs are so long it's difficult to find the broken links in all of the output..

Personally, I don't really care how many links have been checked, and don't want to hear about files that had all valid links. Also every dead link is printed twice as a summary and again with the status.

Taking the above actions run as an example, it would be great if we could have something like this:

FILE: ./_posts/2021-05-25-Moving-pester-to-version-5.md
[✖] https://www.globaldevopsbootcamp.com/ → Status: 0

FILE: ./_posts/2021-05-18-Techorama-Using-GitHub-Actions-Securely.md
[✖] /slides/20210518%20GitHub%20Actions%20security%20Techorama.pdf → Status: 400

FILE: ./_posts/2018-08-12-self-signed-certificate-on-sonarqube-server.md
[✖] https://github.com/Azure/azure-quickstart-templates/tree/master/sonarqube-azuresql → Status: 404
[✖] https://docs.sonarqube.org/display/SCAN/Analyzing+with+SonarQube+Extension+for+VSTS-TFS → Status: 404

instead of what is currently printed:

FILE: ./_posts/2021-05-25-Moving-pester-to-version-5.md
[✖] https://www.globaldevopsbootcamp.com/

5 links checked.

ERROR: 1 dead links found!
[✖] https://www.globaldevopsbootcamp.com/ → Status: 0

FILE: ./_posts/2018-08-23-Retrieve-AppSettings-for-an-App-Service-with-the-Fluent-SDK.md

5 links checked.

FILE: ./_posts/2020-02-12-Azure-SQL-Database-Firewall.md

9 links checked.

FILE: ./_posts/2022-01-17-Automating-my-presence.md

10 links checked.

FILE: ./_posts/2020-12-31-DevOps-Maturity-Levels.md

5 links checked.

FILE: ./_posts/2021-02-16-SonarQube-change-branch-community-version.md

1 links checked.

FILE: ./_posts/2018-09-10-GitHub-Azure-DevOps-Pipeline.md

21 links checked.

FILE: ./_posts/2021-05-18-Techorama-Using-GitHub-Actions-Securely.md
[✖] /slides/20210518%20GitHub%20Actions%20security%20Techorama.pdf

6 links checked.

ERROR: 1 dead links found!
[✖] /slides/20210518%20GitHub%20Actions%20security%20Techorama.pdf → Status: 400

FILE: ./_posts/2021-05-16-Dont-use-self-signed-certificates-on-GitHub-Enterprise.md

3 links checked.

FILE: ./_posts/2020-08-07-ADAL-error-Azure-DevOps.md

6 links checked.

FILE: ./_posts/2018-08-12-self-signed-certificate-on-sonarqube-server.md
[✖] https://github.com/Azure/azure-quickstart-templates/tree/master/sonarqube-azuresql
[✖] https://docs.sonarqube.org/display/SCAN/Analyzing+with+SonarQube+Extension+for+VSTS-TFS

14 links checked.

ERROR: 2 dead links found!
[✖] https://github.com/Azure/azure-quickstart-templates/tree/master/sonarqube-azuresql → Status: 404
[✖] https://docs.sonarqube.org/display/SCAN/Analyzing+with+SonarQube+Extension+for+VSTS-TFS → Status: 404

[gaurav-nelson]

@ewels @rajbos Thank you for adding to the conversation. I'm opening this issues again, hopefully tackle it sometime.

[fharper]

I also find it difficult as I'm checking hundreds of Markdown files.

Maybe this should be an option englobing verbose, and use-quiet-mode as a verbose with four options:

• normal (default option): equivalent to not setting verbose to yes or use-quiet-mode to yes
• verbose: equivalent of setting verbose to yes
• quiet: equivalent of setting use-quiet-mode to yes
• error: equivalent of a super quiet mode, like the first example of @ewels