This one may help -as well as checking browser links part of it's description says
"The new extended URL import capability of Check&Get 2.0 allows you to import links directly from a browser window, HTML or text file or even from office documents (in fact from any file even if the file has the unknown or binary format); "
http://activeurls.com/en/features.htm
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So far every link checking program I have been able to find on the net only checks Favorites/Bookmarks, website html documents, dead system links for windows, and dead shortcut links.
What I am actually looking for is a program that will read text/doc files that have URL links typed into them to check those links before I process the information as webpages. I would like to be able to verify the URL in those types of files before the webpages are created rather than after the fact when another program would then be able to check them instead.
Checking each URL in the text/doc type files requires manually copying/pasting into the addressbar one at a time and checking them that way ahead of time.....and it's getting very time consuming, but then I can change the URL if it's broken or dead easier in the text/doc file than it can be done with the website link checker because many times the site in the website is redirected and it ends up at another page within the site that basically says the page doesn't exist anymore......causing actually a deadlink in the webpages of my site without my knowing it because the redirected page isn't 'dead' in an actual sense since it actually loads up a page telling you the original doesn't exist.
That's not acceptable to me.......and if a text/doc file can be checked instead, those types of URL errors are easier to fix in the text/doc file before the pages are created by me for my site.
Does anybody have a clue about where I might find the type of link checker I'm searching for? It doesn't have to be free......just file specific instead of only being able to check website links. I already have good programs for site checking.....but none of them are able to check text/doc files.
TONI

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