Broken Link Checker — same-host crawl and failing links
Pricing
from $0.40 / 1,000 link checkeds
Crawl a site from a start URL or sitemap, obeying robots.txt and at most two requests a second. Check each link and asset once; report broken and redirected links with status, redirect chain, anchor text and source pages, plus a summary.
You can access the Broken Link Checker — same-host crawl and failing links 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.
1from apify_client import ApifyClient2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")6
7# Prepare the Actor input8run_input = { "startUrl": "https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/publishing/monetize" }9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish11run = client.actor("hermeskd/broken-links").call(run_input=run_input)12
13# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)14print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")15for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():16 print(item)17
18# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-startThe Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Broken Link Checker — same-host crawl and failing links API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: