[Help] Is there any way to dump the excluded links?

[Rizwan-Hasan]

Using the --dump we can get all the links extracted from inputs that would be checked.
Is there any way to get the excluded links also?

[lebensterben]

I think you can extract it from json output with jq.

[Rizwan-Hasan]

I've tried with --format json , it's giving me failed links with statistics or only statistics (if nofail). But not giving excluded links.

[mre]

There is #268, where we could add the excluded links maybe.
Perhaps we should dump the excluded links if the --verbose flag is set? That feature would not be easy to discover, though. Alternatively we could use --dump-excluded, but it feels like it's a niche use-case and I don't want to clutter the help output with too many special cases.

If we can find a straightforward way to do it, I'm all for adding that functionality. Open for suggestions.

[mre]

Well actually we could just append [excluded] to every excluded link when using --dump. 🤔
Similar for cached links etc. Then you could just grep for that. @lebensterben what do you think?

[lebensterben]

@mre
We might as well include reason for exclusion, at least for verbose output.

[mre]

I went ahead and merged this to master.
The reason for exclusion would require more work and it's debatable if
it adds any value, because it might make grepping harder and the source
of exclusion is easily deducatable from the commandline parameters
or the .lycheeignore file, so I skipped that for now.