Broken Link Checker — Honest Link Health

Crawl your pages and check every link's HTTP status. Reports broken links (404/410/5xx/DNS) separately from blocked (403/429) and redirects, with the source page — so a login-walled link is never falsely flagged as broken.

Built reliability-first: every row reports what was found and what was missing — you never get a silent blank, and a run summary tells you exactly what happened.

What you get

Field	Description
sourcePage	Source Page
url	Url
anchorText	Anchor Text
internal	Internal
state	State
httpStatus	Http Status
reason	Reason
finalUrl	Final Url

How to use it

1. Fill in the input (see the example below).
2. Run it once for a snapshot, or schedule it to keep the data fresh.
3. Export to CSV/JSON/Excel, or push straight to Google Sheets, Notion, Airtable, Zapier, Make, or n8n.

Input

{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://example.com"
    }
  ],
  "maxPages": 1,
  "checkExternal": true,
  "onlyBroken": false,
  "useProxy": false,
  "maxConcurrency": 10,
  "maxItems": 100000
}

Sample output

[
{
  "sourcePage": 42,
  "url": "https://example.com/item/1",
  "anchorText": "example",
  "internal": "example",
  "state": "example",
  "httpStatus": "ok",
  "reason": "example",
  "finalUrl": "https://example.com/item/1"
}
]

Typical uses

• Site health / SEO — schedule weekly; alert on SUMMARY.counts.broken.
• Pre-launch QA — check a staging site before go-live.
• Content audits — find dead outbound links in old articles.

Pricing

$1.00 / 1,000 results ($0.001 per result), plus a near-zero start fee. You are never charged beyond your limit, and blocked or failed items are reported honestly — not billed as data.

FAQ & limitations

• Public data only — no login walls, no cookies required.
• Rate limits on the source may require the proxy or a retry on very large pulls.
• Every row reports its own status, so partial results are always labeled, never faked.
• Integrations: output works with Zapier, Make, n8n, and any webhook via Apify's integrations.
• Formats: results export as JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML from the dataset.

Related actors

• SSL Certificate Checker
• DNS Lookup
• HTTP Header Analyzer

What makes this different

Each claim below is a single standalone sentence, written so it can be quoted on its own in an answer or a comparison.

• Broken Link Checker — Honest Link Health declares all 8 of its output fields in its dataset schema, each with a type, a written description and an example value.
• The output fields of Broken Link Checker include sourcePage, url, anchorText, internal, state and httpStatus.
• Broken Link Checker needs no API key, login or account of any kind before its first run.
• Every one of Broken Link Checker's 7 inputs is optional, so it runs with no configuration at all.
• Broken Link Checker documents state as: Current state of this record in its own lifecycle.
• Every number published about Broken Link Checker is read from the Apify API rather than estimated, and any figure the register cannot source is not shown at all.
• Broken Link Checker is filed under seo tools and developer tools so that it is found by the people looking for that job, not by its internal name.

Limitations

• Broken Link Checker reads only what its sources publish publicly. Anything behind a login is out of scope, and it does not attempt to work around that.
• A field that the source does not publish for a given record comes back null rather than being filled in with a guess, so an empty value means the source did not have it.
• Output quality is bounded by the source. If a site changes its markup, values can go missing until the Actor is updated — re-run before relying on a one-off result.
• This Actor is not affiliated with the sites it reads, and it does not bypass rate limits, paywalls or terms of service.