simple command line tool to check or monitor your https certificate

> checkssl -days=5 checkssl.org
checkssl.org
AmazonS3
 1) *.checkssl.org expires on 2021-10-28 12:00PM Thu (359.4 days)
 CA-2) Amazon expires on 2025-10-19 12:00AM Sun (1810.9 days)
 CA-3) Amazon Root CA 1 expires on 2037-12-31 1:00AM Thu (6266.9 days)
 CA-4) Starfield Services Root Certificate Authority - G2 expires on 2034-06-28 5:39PM Wed (4985.6 days)
 CA-5) (missing common name) expires on 2034-06-29 5:39PM Thu (4986.6 days)
[PASS] https://www.checkssl.org

Install Locally

Great for checking lots of sites, scripting or use with private servers

LINUX 64-bit

wget https://github.com/szazeski/checkssl/releases/download/v0.2/checkssl-linux-amd64 && chmod +x checkssl-linux-amd64 && sudo mv checkssl-linux-amd64 /usr/bin/checkssl

LINUX 32-bit

wget https://github.com/szazeski/checkssl/releases/download/v0.2/checkssl-linux-386 && chmod +x checkssl-linux-amd64 && sudo mv checkssl-linux-386 /usr/bin/checkssl

LINUX ARM

wget https://github.com/szazeski/checkssl/releases/download/v0.2/checkssl-linux-arm && chmod +x checkssl-linux-amd64 && sudo mv checkssl-linux-arm /usr/bin/checkssl

View github installation instructions for how to install on mac and windows

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Written in Go under a MIT License

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