# Linkbot-like Program to Spell-Check Websites?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linkbot-like-program-to-spell-check-websites/228743>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 11, 2004, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linkbot-like-program-to-spell-check-websites/228743 "2004-02-11T23:24:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![awldune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@awldune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/awldune)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2004, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linkbot-like-program-to-spell-check-websites/228743/1 "2004-02-11T23:24:22Z")

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I’m looking for a program that can go into a website (or local directory) and spell-check all of the files in the site (including subdirectories). Preferably this would be smart enough to ignore HTML tags and would have an easily customizable dictionary.

Can anyone recommend such a program? Google is only showing programs that spellcheck text fields in a single website.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![awldune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@awldune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/awldune)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2004, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linkbot-like-program-to-spell-check-websites/228743/2 "2004-02-12T15:05:00Z")

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5 views, 0 replies… OK, not a popular question. :rolleyes:

I may have found an answer myself in MicroSpell ([http://www.microspell.com/](http://www.microspell.com/)). It’s not perfect for my needs, but it is certainly very powerful and is free.