lycheeverse
Have the output summary be optional, and just generate a list of the errors as the default
Assume we just want to see errors and not the summary. Ties into #271.
OPTIONS:
-s, --summary Show a small list detailing the query results.
Probably it can depend on whether STDOUT is a terminal or not, so show the summary by default, when it is a terminal, hence most likely an interactive call, and hide it otherwise, when it is most likely a CI call or similar, where indeed often errors are all that is needed. But then -S, --no-summary could be required as well, consequently 🤔.
-s, --scheme <scheme>... btw reserves that short form already. Probably -q, --quite serves as a common alternative?
Alternatively we could tie that into the verbose option: -v would give you the full status output, while by default it wouldn't. Not sure if I like that solution. 😅
Jep, through about that, then moving output for each checked link to next verbosity level -vv, but somehow a summary behind a verbose flag feels wrong. Especially on interactive calls usually one expects some output to know that the command did something 🙂.
So, the summary would not be shown by default?
The final summary table would not be shown. Valid links and what not would still be in the output.
There is a new, compact output format, which only shows a single summary line; see https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee/pull/375.
Does that work for you? If not, we can add a --format=quiet or --format=raw option, which would get rid of the final status line as well. It would be an easy thing to do, but it depends on your use-case.
Ah, I re-read the original issue at #271. You mention machine-readable output. I guess --format=raw could work in this case and there is also --format=json.
Summary for future reference:
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format=rawwhich skips the summary output.