Excluding external URLs

[danieleds]

Hello,

is there a way to skip external URLs? Filtering with a regex such as ^(https?://) doesn't work, since it will match all URLs (see #382 for more information)

I'm running linkinator on the local file system, and I'd like to skip all external links, and explicit links to localhost too.

[sebawita]

have you tried?

--include, -i
        List of urls in regexy form to include.  The opposite of --skip.

[danieleds]

Couldn't try it, but I assume the behavior will be the same (just negated) so it won't solve the issue.

Per https://github.com/JustinBeckwith/linkinator/issues/382#issuecomment-1120352377:

Heh, so this is a kind of funny problem. Linkinator works by mounting the local folder you're scanning as a static HTTP server, so most likely all links are getting picked up by this regex.