Release v2.0.0

[samiahmedsiddiqui]

Summary

v2 turns check-http-status into a full site crawler and CLI while keeping v1 configs working.

New

• Crawl a website from a start URL. Every URL is reported with the pages it was found on, its status and its redirect target.
• Include / exclude rules (text, * wildcard, /regex/). Excluded URLs are still listed and checked, just not crawled.
• External links are checked but not crawled. Bot-protection challenges (Cloudflare, DataDome…) are reported as Blocked instead of broken.
• CLI: npx check-http-status <url>, with crawl and check commands, --fail for CI, and Ctrl+C to stop and still keep the results.
• Reports: Excel (Summary, All URLs, Issues, External Links, one row per URL), CSV, JSON and an interactive HTML report.
• Sitemaps: sitemap index and .xml.gz support, plus orphan page detection.
• Uploads: Google Drive (spreadsheets become Google Sheets) and OneDrive, with optional public links.
• Requests: retries with Retry-After, --delay, --user-agent, optional robots.txt support, Basic auth and custom headers.
• Config file (check-http-status.config.json) with a JSON Schema, plus TypeScript types.
• Library API for apps: signal, onResult, recheck(), writeReport().
• GitHub Pages site with a demo report (docs/).

Fixed

• Relative redirect Location headers (supersedes Adding support for relative url redirects #2)
• Crash on sitemap index files
• Infinite recursion on redirect loops
• Slow batching: a batch of 10 waited for its slowest request
• Crash when output is not a terminal (CI)

Breaking

• Requires Node.js 18.17+ (built-in fetch; axios, columnify and xml2js removed)
• checkHttpStatus() returns { summary, results } and throws instead of calling process.exit()
• Excel/CSV columns changed

Testing

• 76 tests (npm test) and a type check (npm run test:types), run by CI on Linux, macOS and Windows with Node 20, 22 and 24
• Every CLI option was verified against a live site