There is a list of HTML checkers and verifiers at
http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Information_and_Documentation/Da
ta_Formats/HTML/Validation_and_Checkers/

I personally like Dr HTML to check to see that links are still up.
http://www2.imagiware.com/RxHTML/  I don't know about extracting title and
first 50 words, though, Dr. HTML won't do it as far as I see.

Brad Jensen


-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick O'Beirne <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sunday, February 20, 2000 6:04 PM
Subject: Web site verify/index software?


>I have a archive of a mail list, and a scan shows about 1000 URLs in it. It
>has been suggested to me that a bookmark file could be created from this,
>for the reference of the group. I might only index the domain level (e.g.
>www.site.co.za ) as pages go out of date. But sites go off too, and it
>would be nice to have a utility that I could feed a list of URLs to, it
>would verify they exist and extract the Title and Description tags of the
>index.htm(l) file it finds, or the first 50 words if not.
>
>Anybody know of such, preferably free?
>
>Regards
>
>Patrick
>
>
>
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