MichaIng

While checking our forum for outdated links, I recognised that also shortened URL text within anchor tags is checked. phpBB shortens long URLs. so that such an element is produced:...

Ah this was when scanning URLs (with `.php` extensions and query string) and no local files. In case of URLs as input, it's of course harder to derive/guess the type...

Adding [this](https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee/issues/270#issuecomment-868870776) idea here: CSS selector syntax based excludes (and exclusive includes, if it turns out there is a wider use case for such) would be awesome. But I guess...

But that would not work when using `lychee`'s regular input arguments, especially complicated when wanting to scan URLs instead of local files. It is not a that big issue for...

`liche` excludes code and pre tags OOTB. We did just call: ``` liche -c 64 -x 'https://(github.com|twitter.com|www.spigotmc.org|pi-hole.net|www.php.net)' -d build -r README.md build/docs ``` without any additional configuration. When switching to...

That sounds great, many thanks for working on this 👍.

CSS selectors would be awesome, very flexible, and simple tags are just selected as simple as `code`/`pre` without needing to know about further CSS selectors syntax 👍.

> I'm a bit concerned about the overhead. Dito. At least it shouldn't cause overhead when the option is not used and on non-HTML inputs. However, for our projects it...

Make sense. I just have no idea how much relative overhead it would be to check expected CSS paths, like `code` or `a.nocheck` (I would expect or use myself relatively...

Probably I need some explanation how this tokenization actually works, especially when comparing html5gum and html5ever. I mean lychee currently detects and checks specific HTML tags, respectively their src/href attributes...