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Asked: 2024-11-27T05:02:10+00:00

Html Parser – How to scan HTML files for missing assets and broken links

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Hello Coders,

The article presents a simple, open-source tool that I'm using to statically analyze HTML files for missing assets and broken links, before using the files in real projects. This Html Parser is basically a Python3 wrapper over Beautiful Soup, the popular OSS parsing library for HTML files and XMLs. The source code can be found on Github released under EULA License.

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Features

  • Open-Source – can be also used for eLearning
  • Works with directories – all HTML files are scanned
  • Detects missing assets (JS, CSS, images ) for each page
  • Detects broken links and suggest the right path
  • Acceptable execution time – 100 Pages processed <1min

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To use the tool we need to specify two things:

  • The folder where HTML files are saved
  • The assets folder – parent Directory for all JS, CSS, Images ..

Once we have provided this simple setup, we can call the scripts in the terminal: 

$ python ./check-assets.py
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HTML Parser – The Relevant Parts

To scan and correlate the information, the tool uses a few structures to save and reuse the relevant information and also perform simple operations over detected HTML files.

Hot it works

  • define a map where the key is the file name
  • associate a data structure to each file where the relevant information is stored and updated
  • Each HTML file is scanned for assets and links
  • Validate the information for each file and save the missing assets for each by looking on the disk

HTML Parser – Source Code

The relevant functions and code chunks are below. If something relevant is missing, feel free to ask for it in the comments section:

Read files from a directory 

def get_files( aPath ):      FILES_LIST = []      for (root, dirs, files) in walk( aPath ):         FILES_LIST.extend( files )         break      return FILES_LIST
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The structure/class to save the information for each file 

class TMPL:      # constructor     def __init__(self, aFile=''):          self.file      = aFile         self.title     = ''         self.css       = [] # All CSS Files         self.js        = [] # All JS Files         self.img       = [] # All Images         self.links     = [] # All Links          self.err       = [] # used to report missing assets         self.err_links = [] # used to report missing assets      # Used to have a string representation      def __repr__(self):         return "" + self.file + ' some other info'
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Initiate Beautiful Soup object for each file 

def get_bs( aFile ):    minified = htmlmin.minify( file_load( aFile ), remove_empty_space=True)   return bs(minified,'html.parser')
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Scan each file for Links and assets

The results are injected into associated structures for each file. 

# BS object is constructed and available for queries   soup = get_bs( FULL_PATH )  # Scan for CSS files tmpl.css = get_css( soup )  # # Scan for JS files tmpl.css = get_js( soup )  ...
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Links and images are scanned in the same way using simple helpers.
Once the information is saved, we can traverse the DOM using BS objects and perform mutations over elements.

HTML Parser – Sample output

To visualize a real production output, please access a sample file saved into the public repository: check assets – output

(env) PS > python.exe .check-assets.py   Files (2) ['apps-calendar.html', 'index.html']   ***** ***** *****   PROCESSING --> apps-calendar.html | files (1) remaining  PROCESSING --> index.html | files (0) remaining  PROCESSING --> apps-calendar.html  ERR - Missing Asset -> /static/assets/css/classic-horizontal/style-ERROR.css  ERR - Missing Asset -> /static/assets/images/logo-mini-ERROR.svg  PROCESSING --> index.html  ERR - Missing Asset -> /static/assets/images/favicon-ERROR.png     |     |- apps-calendar.html     |    |     |    |--- CSS: 6 file(s)     |          | /static/assets/vendors/mdi/css/materialdesignicons.min.css     |          | /static/assets/vendors/css/vendor.bundle.base.css     |          | /static/assets/vendors/fullcalendar/fullcalendar.min.css     |          | /static/assets/css/classic-horizontal/style.css     |          | /static/assets/css/classic-horizontal/style-ERROR.css     |          | /static/assets/images/favicon.png     |      ...  Pages with errors: 2     |     |- apps-calendar.html     |    |     | /static/assets/css/classic-horizontal/style-ERROR.css     |    |     | /static/assets/images/logo-mini-ERROR.svg     |     |- index.html     |    |     | /static/assets/images/favicon-ERROR.png
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The tool can be easily extended to LIVE websites using the existing core. In case any of you find it useful, feel free to suggest features in the comments section or push a PR on Github.

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