Exclude specific files from link checker

[VachaShah]

Hi, I have a use case where I want to exclude specific files from being checked in the link checker. Currently my args are as below:

args: --accept=200,403,429 "**/*.html" "**/*.md" "**/*.txt" "**/*.json"

I want to exclude some type of text files like files with names containing a specific word example anything with word file in the name like sample-file.txt. Is there a way to achieve this?

Thank you!

[mre]

Hey Vacha,

thanks for trying lychee! 🌟

I don't think that's easily possible at the moment. At least not within lychee itself.
You can try something like this maybe: lycheeverse/lychee#284
The idea is to use find for that or delete the unnecessary files before calling lychee.

There is also an --exclude parameter, but it only excludes URLs within the documents.
That said, it would be nice to add excludes for files or glob patterns in lychee as well.
I could think of --exclude file://path/to/sample-file.txt or even --exclude file://*file*.
But the more generic solution would probably be to fix lycheeverse/lychee#284 and add a ! option so you could write

args: --accept=200,403,429 "**/*.html" "**/*.md" "**/*.txt" "**/*.json" "!*file*"

I think we should move the discussion over to the main lychee repo, as this feature will need to be added to lychee itself. 😄
Will close this in favor of lycheeverse/lychee#284.