victoriadrake/hydra-link-checker

Checking links in logged in pages

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#14 opened on Oct 28, 2021

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Description

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Use case: checking for broken links in a logged in pages.

Describe the solution you'd like hydra provides username/password to login and then checks for broken links inside the logged in pages.

Describe alternatives you've considered Other than provides username/password we may able to provide session/cookie for login.

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Research direction
Research how to add authentication support (username/password or cookies) to the Hydra link checker. Look into using Python's requests library with Session objects to handle login and maintain state. Then modify the crawling logic to use authenticated sessions when checking links.
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python
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testing
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3
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1-2 days
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65