Discovery
Filter a URL list by HTTP response code
HTTP status codes for a URL list. Nothing else.
overview
What hakcheckurl does
hakcheckurl reads a file of URLs and reports the HTTP status each returns, one line per URL. Concurrency is -t (default 8). Output is flat enough to grep by code.
Use it after a crawler or wordlist pass when you only need live, redirecting, forbidden, or gone. It does not return titles or tech fingerprints.
Trickest exposes hakcheckurl as a managed Discovery node with a URLs file input and file/folder outputs. Hand survivors to httpx when you need titles and technology next.
use cases
Where hakcheckurl fits
Filter a URL list to live ones
Check a large set of URLs for their response codes so a downstream stage works only from the URLs that answer.
Find broken and forbidden links
Scan crawler or brute-force output for 404 and 403 responses to surface dead links and access-controlled paths worth a closer look.
Clear a long list with more threads
Raise the thread count with -t so a large URL list resolves in parallel instead of one request at a time.
Trim a list before a heavier prober
Run hakcheckurl after content discovery to cut the set down before httpx classifies titles and technology on what remains.
reference
hakcheckurl inputs and flags
| Name | Type | Flag | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| urls-file | FILE | · | File of target URLs to check. |
| threads | STRING | -t | Number of threads to use (default 8). |
Showing key inputs. hakcheckurl exposes 2 inputs in total.
example
Run hakcheckurl
# check a list of URLs and print each status code, 16 threadscat urls.txt | hakcheckurl -t 16200 https://example.com/301 https://example.com/blog302 https://example.com/login403 https://example.com/admin404 https://example.com/old-report500 https://example.com/api/v1/export200 https://example.com/docs401 https://example.com/dashboardguidance
Choosing hakcheckurl
Use for a minimal pass that returns only HTTP status codes for a URL list. When you need titles, tech detection, and richer probe signal, reach for httpx. hakcheckurl is the lighter, single-purpose option.
httpx
Full HTTP prober with status, title, tech, and more. hakcheckurl returns only response codes.
httprobe
Minimal liveness check for hosts. Close sibling for a quick alive-or-not pass.
404checker
Focuses on 404 and soft-404 responses. Overlaps hakcheckurl dead-link filtering.
faq
hakcheckurl questions
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Run hakcheckurl yourself
A URL list feeds hakcheckurl, which checks each one's HTTP status and writes the live URLs as a queryable output.
Facts on this page come from the live Trickest tool library.