An correction for http://docs.casperjs.org/en/latest/cookbook.html#script-to-automatically-check-a-page-for-404-and-500-errors

404-500-errors.js

var casper = require("casper").create({
  pageSettings: {
    loadImages: false,
    loadPlugins: false
  }
});
var checked = [];
var currentLink = 0;
var fs = require('fs');
var upTo = ~~casper.cli.get('max-depth') || 100;
var url = casper.cli.get(0);
var baseUrl = url;
var links = [url];
var utils = require('utils');
var f = utils.format;

function absPath(url, base) {
  return new URI(url).resolve(new URI(base)).toString();
}

// Clean links
function cleanLinks(urls, base) {
  return utils.unique(urls).filter(function(url) {
    return url.indexOf(baseUrl) === 0 || !new RegExp('^(#|ftp|javascript|http)').test(url);
  }).map(function(url) {
    return absPath(url, base);
  }).filter(function(url) {
    return checked.indexOf(url) === -1;
  });
}

// Opens the page, perform tests and fetch next links
function crawl(link) {
  this.start().then(function() {
    this.echo(link, 'COMMENT');
      this.open(link);
      checked.push(link);
  });
  this.then(function() {
    if (this.currentHTTPStatus === 404) {
      this.warn(link + ' is missing (HTTP 404)');
    } else if (this.currentHTTPStatus === 500) {
      this.warn(link + ' is broken (HTTP 500)');
    } else {
      this.echo(link + f(' is okay (HTTP %s)', this.currentHTTPStatus));
    }
  });
  this.then(function() {
    var newLinks = searchLinks.call(this);
    links = links.concat(newLinks).filter(function(url) {
      return checked.indexOf(url) === -1;
    });
    this.echo(newLinks.length + " new links found on " + link);
  });
}

// Fetch all <a> elements from the page and return
// the ones which contains a href starting with 'http://'
function searchLinks() {
  return cleanLinks(this.evaluate(function _fetchInternalLinks() {
    return [].map.call(__utils__.findAll('a[href]'), function(node) {
      return node.getAttribute('href');
    });
  }), this.getCurrentUrl());
}

// As long as it has a next link, and is under the maximum limit, will keep running
function check() {
  if (links[currentLink] && currentLink < upTo) {
    crawl.call(this, links[currentLink]);
    currentLink++;
    this.run(check);
  } else {
    this.echo("All done, " + checked.length + " links checked.");
    this.exit();
  }
}

if (!url) {
  casper.warn('No url passed, aborting.').exit();
}


casper.start('https://gist.githubusercontent.com/pieplu/6be55d1d8f27ea9b8dcf4de6b1933547/raw/5e8d996fe1d86edac93825d0050fd359caf74f8e/URI.js', function() {
  var scriptCode = this.getPageContent() + '; return URI;';
  window.URI = new Function(scriptCode)();
  if (typeof window.URI === "function") {
    this.echo('URI.js loaded');
  } else {
    this.warn('Could not setup URI.js').exit();
  }
}).then(function() {
    this.echo("Starting");
}).run(check);

Hi @PierreAmmeloot Sorry I see your message only now...

I bet, it's because the script need URI.js. But I change that to use directly the gist. Can you retry with this new version?

(Note, I will make a PR for casperjs doc)