Check broken anchors

[honzajavorek]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I'm building a website where local anchors are an important part of the content navigation. I need to automatically check whether they're broken or not.

Describe the solution you'd like I'd like the checker to validate whether my <a href="#foo"> or <a href="http://example.com/#foo"> links lead to a page where an actual id="foo" or <a name="foo"> element exists.

Describe alternatives you've considered I spent days already figuring out a JS or Python link checker for the website. Finally I found this one, which works perfectly, but this feature is missing. The Sphinx' builtin link checker does this and it is a very useful thing. It is baked into the Sphinx too much though, I need a generic tool like this one.

[stevenvachon]

It's on the to-do list, but it's a complicated feature to accomplish efficiently.

[honzajavorek]

I suppose it also implies --get

[stevenvachon]

It would if caching were disabled, which causes some complications that need to be thought through. Get method is already used for recursive document checks (getting links).

[muescha]

i also looking for a anchor check

[sullyD64]

Any update on this?

[stevenvachon]

I'll be working on v0.8 soon, but I won't be including document anchor checks at that time

[tg44]

I'm also looking for anchor checks. If you can give me some directions, I'll try to PR it.

[Siemienik]

It's on the to-do list, but it's a complicated feature to accomplish efficiently.

@stevenvachon, Thank you for this library, we are using it for checking all links on our documentation - works great 👍 . To fully accomplish our requirements we need to check all anchors, which I know is quite difficult. As you have experience in linking checking I would ask you if would you be able to add this functionality under the sponsorship?

[mensfeld]

@stevenvachon don't know how sponsorship looks here but willing to add $100 on top of @Siemienik contribution to get this functionality.