lychee.toml

# Lychee link checker configuration
# https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee

base = "https://rupertmckay.com" 

# Verbose program output
# Accepts log level: "error", "warn", "info", "debug", "trace"
verbose = "info"

# Output display mode
mode = "emoji"

# Don't show interactive progress bar while checking links
no_progress = true

# Maximum number of concurrent network requests
# Reduced to avoid rate limiting (especially for GitHub)
max_concurrency = 2

# Number of retries for failed requests
max_retries = 3

# Wait time between retries in seconds
retry_wait_time = 5

# Check that fragment identifiers (hash links) exist on the target page
include_fragments = true

# Exclude patterns (regex)
exclude = [
  # Exclude localhost and local IPs
  "http://localhost",
  "http://127.0.0.1",
  "http://0.0.0.0",
  
  # Exclude common patterns that might be examples
  "http://example.com",
  "https://example.com",
  
  # Exclude mailto links (they often fail checks)
  "mailto:",
  
  # Exclude npmjs.com (blocks automated requests with 403)
  "https://www.npmjs.com",
  
  # Exclude odido.nl (blocks automated requests despite browser user agent)
  "https://odido.nl",
]

# Accepted status codes for valid links
accept = [200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 206, 300, 301, 302, 303, 304, 307, 308, "999"]

# Follow redirects
max_redirects = 10

# Timeout in seconds for network requests
timeout = 20

# User agent (mimics a real browser to avoid 403 blocks)
user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"

# Exclude private network addresses
exclude_private = true

# Don't check links that are already cached (speeds up repeat checks)
cache = true