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Soft 404 Detector – Dead Link & Redirect-to-Homepage Checker

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Find soft 404s and dead links that return HTTP 200 while actually broken — homepage redirects, 'page not found' content, or noindex flags. Compares each domain against a live baseline probe. Built for SEO audits and link-rot monitoring. Charged only when a signal fires.

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from $3.80 / 1,000 successful lookups

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Adrian Voss

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You can access the Soft 404 Detector – Dead Link & Redirect-to-Homepage Checker programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = { "items": [
9        "https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080101000000AAxyz12",
10        "https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090909090909AAabc99",
11    ] }
12
13# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
14run = client.actor("accountable_eel/soft-404-detector").call(run_input=run_input)
15
16# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
17print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
18for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
19    print(item)
20
21# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

Soft 404 Detector – Dead Link & Redirect-to-Homepage Chec... API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Soft 404 Detector – Dead Link & Redirect-to-Homepage Checker API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

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