Action: Hugo Link Check

This action will check for broken links in a Hugo generated static webpage.

See a running example here.

Usage

Inputs

All inputs are optional.

Input	Description	Default
fail-on-broken-links	The number of required broken links to fail the action. Set to 0 to deactivate	1
log-skipped-links	Logs skipped links and sends them to skipped-links output	false
retry	Automatically retry requests that return HTTP 429 responses and include a 'retry-after' header	true
timeout	Request timeout in ms. Set to 0 for no timeout	5000
skip	List of urls in regexy form to not include in the check	``
hugo-root	Base path to your hugo project	./
hugo-content-dir	Base path to your hugo content directory	./content
hugo-config	Base path to your hugo config	./config.yaml
hugo-startup-wait-time	Maximum time to wait for hugo to start up and process your project	20

Outputs

Output	Description
broken-links-count	Count of broken links
broken-links	JSON-Array with broken links
skipped-links-count	Count of skipped links
skipped-links	JSON-Array with skipped links

Mandatory: package.json

To easily support multiple versions of Hugo, you need to have a package.json in your hugo-root. In that package.json you need a devDependency to hugo-bin specifying the hugo version to use for your project. See an example here.

Minimal example:

{
  "name": "hugo",
  "private": true,
  "hugo-bin": {
    "buildTags": "extended"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "hugo-bin": "0.92.3"
  }
}

If you have another idea how to easily support multiple hugo version, please let me know!

Example

name: Example

on: [ push ]

jobs:
  check-broken-links:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0
      - uses: BoundfoxStudios/action-hugo-link-check@v2
        with:
          hugo-root: docs
          hugo-content-dir: docs/content
          hugo-config: docs/config.yaml

Remarks

Upgrade from v1 to v2

If you're upgrading from v1 to v2 the underlying link check library changed from broken-link-checker to linkinator. With that, all available non hugo-based options have changed from v1 to v2. Please consult the docs for the current options to use with this action.