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Proof HTML

v2.1.4 Latest version

Proof HTML

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Proof HTML

Validate your HTML output with HTMLProofer

Installation

Copy and paste the following snippet into your .yml file.

              

- name: Proof HTML

uses: anishathalye/[email protected]

Learn more about this action in anishathalye/proof-html

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proof-html

proof-html is a GitHub Action to validate HTML and CSS using the Nu HTML Validator and check links, images, and more using HTMLProofer.

Usage

- uses: anishathalye/proof-html@v2
  with:
    directory: ./site

See below for a full example.

Options

Name Description Default
directory The directory to scan (required)
check_external_hash Check whether external anchors exist true
check_favicon Check whether favicons are valid true
check_html Validate HTML true
check_css Validate CSS true
check_opengraph Check images and URLs in Open Graph metadata true
ignore_empty_alt Allow images with empty alt tags false
ignore_missing_alt Allow images with missing alt tags false
allow_missing_href Allow anchors with missing href tags false
enforce_https Require that links use HTTPS true
swap_urls JSON-encoded map of URL rewrite rules (empty)
disable_external Disables the external link checker false
ignore_url Newline-separated list of URLs to ignore (empty)
ignore_url_re Newline-separated list of URL regexes to ignore (empty)
connect_timeout HTTP connection timeout 30
tokens JSON-encoded map of domains to authorization tokens (empty)
max_concurrency Maximum number of concurrent requests 50
timeout HTTP request timeout 120
retries Number of times to retry checking links 3

Most of the options correspond directly to configuration options for HTMLProofer.

tokens

tokens is a JSON-encoded map of domains to authorization tokens. So it's "doubly encoded": the workflow file is written in YAML and tokens is a string (not a map!), a JSON encoding of the data. This option can be used to provide bearer tokens to use in certain scenarios, which is useful for e.g. avoiding rate limiting. Tokens are only sent to the specified websites. Note that domains must not have a trailing slash. Here is an example of an encoding of tokens:

tokens: |
  {"https://github.com": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
   "https://twitter.com": "yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy"}

You can also see the full example below for how to pass on the GITHUB_TOKEN supplied by the workflow runner.

swap_urls

swap_urls is a JSON-encoded map, mapping regexes to strings. This can be useful to strip a base path for an internal domain. For example:

swap_urls: |
  {"^https://example.com/": "/"}

You can also use capture groups and back-references here. For example, to ignore checking hashes for GitHub URLs (like https://github.com/anishathalye/proof-html#options), you can use:

swap_urls: |
  {"^(https://github.com/.*)#.*$": "\\1"}

Full Example

This is the entire .github/workflows/build.yml file for a GitHub Pages / Jekyll site.

name: CI
on:
  push:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 8 * * 6'
jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - uses: actions/setup-ruby@v1
        with:
          ruby-version: 2.7.x
      - uses: actions/cache@v2
        with:
          path: vendor/bundle
          key: ${{ runner.os }}-gems-${{ hashFiles('**/Gemfile.lock') }}
          restore-keys: |
            ${{ runner.os }}-gems-
      - run: |
          bundle config path vendor/bundle
          bundle install --jobs 4 --retry 3
      - run: bundle exec jekyll build
      - uses: anishathalye/proof-html@v2
        with:
          directory: ./_site
          enforce_https: false
          tokens: |
            {"https://github.com": "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"}
          ignore_url: |
            http://www.example.com/
            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
          ignore_url_re: |
            ^https://twitter.com/
          swap_urls: |
            {"^https://www.anishathalye.com/": "/"}

Real-world examples

Running locally

You can build the Docker container locally with docker build . -t proof-html.

The GitHub Action is set up to pass arguments as strings through environment variables, where an argument like ignore_url is passed as INPUT_IGNORE_URL (capitalize and prepend INPUT_) to the Docker container, so you will need to do this translation yourself if you're running the Docker container locally. You can mount a local directory in the Docker container with the -v argument and pass the directory name as the INPUT_DIRECTORY argument. For example, if you compiled a site into the build directory, you can run:

docker run --rm \
    -e INPUT_DIRECTORY=build \
    -v "${PWD}/build:/build" \
    proof-html:latest

You can pass additional arguments as additional environment variables, e.g. -e INPUT_FORCE_HTTPS=0 or -e INPUT_TOKENS='{"https://github.com": "your-token-here"}'.

License

Copyright (c) Anish Athalye. Released under the MIT License. See LICENSE.md for details.