HTML::LinkExtractor - Parser for external and internal links from a specified website
Overview of HTML::LinkExtractor parser

Use cases for HTML::LinkExtractor parser
Collecting all external links from a website
- Add the option
Parse to level
, select the value10
in the list (navigate to neighboring pages up to the 10th level). - Add the option
Result format
, specify$extlinks.format('$link\n')
as the value (output of external links). - In the
Queries
section, check the optionUnique queries
. - In the
Results
section, check the optionUnique by line
. - Specify the link to the website from which you want to parse external links as the query.
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Collecting all internal links from a website
Similar to the first case, but in step 2, specify $intlinks.format('$link\n')
as the value (output of internal links).
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Navigation only through links that do not contain the word forum
- Add the option
Parse to level
, select the value3
in the list (navigate to neighboring pages up to the 3rd level). - Add the option
Result format
, specify$query
as the value. - Add a filter. Filter by
$followlinks.$i.link - Link
, selectDoes not contain string
as the type, and specifyforum
as the string. - In the
Queries
section, check the optionUnique queries
. - In the
Results
section, check the optionUnique by line
. - Specify the link to the website from which you want to parse links as the query.
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List of collected data
External links: 12
https://www.youtube.com/c/AParser_channel
https://t.me/a_parser
https://en.a-parser.com/
https://spyserp.com/ru/
https://sitechecker.pro/
https://arsenkin.ru/tools/
https://spyserp.com/
http://www.promkaskad.ru/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvypGICrfCky8tPtebmIvQw
https://www.facebook.com/AParserRu
https://twitter.com/a_parser
https://www.youtube.com/c/AParser_channel
Internal links: 129
https://a-parser.com/
https://a-parser.com/
https://a-parser.com/a-parser-for-seo/
https://a-parser.com/a-parser-for-business-and-freelancers/
https://a-parser.com/a-parser-for-developers/
https://a-parser.com/a-parser-for-marketing-and-analytics/
https://a-parser.com/a-parser-for-e-commerce/
https://a-parser.com/a-parser-for-cpa/
https://a-parser.com/wiki/features-and-benefits/
https://a-parser.com/wiki/parsers/
- Number of external links
- Number of internal links
- External links:
- links themselves
- anchors
- anchors cleared of HTML tags
- nofollow parameter
<a>
tag in full
- Internal links:
- links themselves
- anchors
- anchors cleared of HTML tags
- nofollow parameter
<a>
tag in full
- Array with all collected pages (used when working with the Use Pages option)
Capabilities
- Multi-page parsing (navigation through pages)
- Navigation through internal pages of the site up to a specified depth (Parse to level option) - allows to go through all pages of the site, collecting internal and external links
- Automatically clears the anchor of HTML tags
- Determination of nofollow for each link
- Possibility to consider subdomains as internal site pages
- Supports compression gzip/deflate/brotli
- Determination and conversion of site encodings to UTF-8
- Bypassing CloudFlare protection
- Choice of engine (HTTP or Chrome)
Usage scenarios
- Obtaining a complete site map (saving all internal links)
- Obtaining all external links from the site
- Checking backlinks to your own site
Query examples
Queries should include links to pages from which links need to be collected, or an entry point (for example, the main page of the site), in cases where the Parse to level option is used:
https://lenta.ru/
https://a-parser.com/wiki/index/
Result output options
A-Parser supports flexible result formatting thanks to the built-in Template Toolkit template engine, which allows it to output results in arbitrary form, as well as in structured form, such as CSV or JSON.
Possible settings
Parameter name | Default value | Description |
---|---|---|
Good status | All | Selects which response from the server will be considered successful. If a different response from the server is received during parsing, the request will be retried with a different proxy |
Good code RegEx | - | Allows to specify a regular expression to check the response code |
Ban Proxy Code RegEx | - | Allows to ban a proxy for a certain time (Proxy ban time) based on the server response code |
Method | GET | Request method |
POST body | - | Content to be sent to the server when using the POST method. Supports variables $query - URL query, $query.orig - original query, and $pagenum - page number when using the Use Pages option. |
Cookies | - | Allows to specify cookies for the request |
User agent | User-agent of the current version of Chrome is automatically inserted | User-Agent header when requesting pages |
Additional headers | - | Allows to specify arbitrary request headers with support for template engine capabilities and use of variables from the request constructor |
Read only headers | ☐ | Read only headers. In some cases, it allows to save traffic if there is no need to process the content |
Detect charset on content | ☐ | Detects the encoding based on the page content |
Emulate browser headers | ☐ | Emulates browser headers |
Max redirects count | 0 | Maximum number of redirects to follow |
Follow common redirects | ☑ | Allows to make http <-> https and www.domain <-> domain redirects within one domain, bypassing the Max redirects count limit |
Max cookies count | 16 | Maximum number of cookies to be saved |
Engine | HTTP (Fast, JavaScript Disabled) | Allows to choose HTTP engine (faster, without JavaScript) or Chrome (slower, with JavaScript) |
Chrome Headless | ☐ | If enabled, the browser will not be displayed |
Chrome DevTools | ☑ | Allows to use Chromium debugging tools |
Chrome Log Proxy connections | ☑ | If enabled, information about chrome connections will be output to the log |
Chrome Wait Until | networkidle2 | Determines when the page is considered loaded. More about values. |
Use HTTP/2 transport | ☐ | Determines whether to use HTTP/2 instead of HTTP/1.1. For example, Google and Majestic immediately ban if HTTP/1.1 is used. |
Don't verify TLS certs | ☐ | Disables TLS certificate validation |
Randomize TLS Fingerprint | ☐ | This option allows to bypass site bans based on TLS fingerprint |
Bypass CloudFlare | ☑ | Automatically bypasses CloudFlare check |
Bypass CloudFlare with Chrome(Experimental) | ☐ | Bypass CF via Chrome |
Bypass CloudFlare with Chrome Max Pages | 20 | Max. number of pages when bypassing CF via Chrome |
Subdomains are internal | ☐ | Determines whether to consider subdomains as internal links |
Follow links | Internal only | Determines which links to follow |
Skip comment blocks | ☐ | Determines whether to skip comment blocks |