Theme fund: NGI Zero Core
Start: 2024-12
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Lychee
Reliable and fast link checker to combat linkrot
Links are the glue that holds the web together, but broken links undermine our collective digital knowledge. With 54% of Wikipedia references and 70% of links in legal journals now dead, link rot is a serious threat to information accessibility and makes for an unpleasant web experience.
Lychee is a fast, memory-efficient CLI tool written in Rust that detects broken links in Markdown, HTML, and plain text. Over the past 4 years, it has been adopted by tens of thousands of public repositories and organizations like Google, Microsoft, and AWS. The project will focus on three key milestones: implementing recursion support to check entire websites at once, adding per-host rate limiting to prevent server overload and sabilizing the codebase for a 1.0 release. By improving Lychee, we're helping everyone from small websites to major platforms maintain their corner of the open web and preserve our digital heritage.
- The project's own website:https://lychee.cli.rs/
Run by corrode
This project was funded through theNGI0 Core Fund, a fund established byNLnet with financial support from the European Commission'sNext Generation Internet programme, under the aegis ofDG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No101092990.
