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 Features
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-- recursive and multithreaded checking and site crawling
-- output in colored or normal text, HTML, SQL, CSV, XML or a sitemap graph in different formats
+- Recursive and multithreaded checking and site crawling
+- Output in colored or normal text, HTML, SQL, CSV, XML or a sitemap graph in different formats
 - HTTP/1.1, HTTPS, FTP, mailto:, news:, nntp:, Telnet and local file links support
-- restrict link checking with regular expression filters for URLs
-- proxy support
-- username/password authorization for HTTP, FTP and Telnet
-- honors robots.txt exclusion protocol
+- Restrict link checking with regular expression filters for URLs
+- Proxy support
+- Username/password authorization for HTTP, FTP and Telnet
+- Honors robots.txt exclusion protocol
 - Cookie support
 - HTML5 support
-- a command line and web interface
-- various check plugins available, eg. HTML syntax and antivirus checks.
+- A command line and web interface
+- Various check plugins available, eg. HTML syntax and antivirus checks.
 
 Installation
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