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Checking links in a web page
Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 1:39 am
by amlan_08
Hello I am a new member of this forum.
I want to check whether the link of my homepage (ex.
http://www.xyz.com) is present in any particular site or not. Is there any way to check that?

Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 4:37 am
by McGruff
You can use the web tester in
SimpleTest to verify links, if that's what you mean?
Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 4:53 am
by hongco
it seems that amlan_08 wanted to find out who hotlinks his/her site - or posts his/her links on other site.
Google
Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 6:35 am
by traherom
I'd think the only way to do it is to donwload the whole code of the site, then just do a search for "
www.xyz.com" or whatever. If you're making it a robot type thing, then you could have it follow all the links it could finds on the page (use a regex like:
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preg_match('/([a-z]{3,5}://|)((?:[a-z])*\.)/i', $sourceCode, $matches)
. That will only match URLs without paths after them (
http://www.google.com, not
http://www.google.com/ig), but you get the idea.) If you do it this way, be sure to follow the rules in robots.txt. Do a Google search to learn more.
Although that would work, you could just use Google. If you use 'link:
www.xyz.com' in your google search, it will show you all the sites it has indexed which link to hte specified URL.