Broken Image Finder

Automatically crawl any website to detect and report broken images (404s, 500s). Keep your site looking professional and boost SEO.

Broken images ruin the user experience and negatively impact your website's SEO rankings. This lightweight, blazing-fast actor will scan your entire website, discover every <img> tag, and ping the image sources to ensure they load successfully.

What can this Actor do?

• ✅ Deep Crawling - Start with a single URL and the actor will automatically follow all internal links on the same domain to scan your entire site.
• ✅ Lightning Fast HTML Parsing - Built on Cheerio, it parses HTML instantly without the heavy overhead of a headless browser.
• ✅ Global Image Cache - Uses an internal cache to remember which images have already been tested. If your site's logo is broken, it will only test it once, saving massive amounts of compute time.
• ✅ External Image Support - Can test images hosted on CDNs, Amazon S3, or third-party domains.
• ✅ Rich Output - Reports the exact page URL where the broken image was found, the broken image's URL, its alt text, and the HTTP status code (e.g., 404 Not Found).

Why find broken images?

• 🎯 SEO Optimization - Search engines penalize sites with broken assets. Clean up your site to improve rankings.
• 📊 User Experience - Prevent users from seeing ugly missing-image icons on your beautiful web app.
• 📍 Site Migrations - Run a full scan after moving to a new domain or CMS to ensure all media links were updated correctly.

How to use it

1. Enter your website URL into the Start URLs field.
2. Set the Max Pages to Scan to limit how deep the crawler goes (e.g., 100 pages).
3. Choose whether you want to check external images.
4. Click Start!

How much does it cost?

This actor uses a Pay-Per-Event (PPE) pricing model. You only pay for the pages successfully scanned!

• $0.50 per 1,000 pages scanned.

Output Example

When a broken image is found, the actor pushes this data to your dataset:

{
  "pageUrl": "https://example.com/blog/my-awesome-post",
  "imgUrl": "https://example.com/assets/images/missing-hero.jpg",
  "altText": "A beautiful sunset over the mountains",
  "statusCode": 404,
  "errorReason": "Not Found",
  "scrapedAt": "2023-10-25T15:00:00.000Z"
}