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Broken Link Checker — Crawl Sites & Find 404s

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Crawl each website (same domain, respects robots.txt), check every internal and external link, and get the broken ones (404, 5xx, timeouts, DNS errors) with the page where they were found, anchor text, plus one summary row per site.

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Broken Link Checker: crawl sites and find 404 links OpenAPI definition

OpenAPI is a standard for designing and describing RESTful APIs, allowing developers to define API structure, endpoints, and data formats in a machine-readable way. It simplifies API development, integration, and documentation.

OpenAPI is effective when used with AI agents and GPTs by standardizing how these systems interact with various APIs, for reliable integrations and efficient communication.

By defining machine-readable API specifications, OpenAPI allows AI models like GPTs to understand and use varied data sources, improving accuracy. This accelerates development, reduces errors, and provides context-aware responses, making OpenAPI a core component for AI applications.

You can download the OpenAPI definitions for Broken Link Checker — Crawl Sites & Find 404s from the options below:

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If you’d like to learn more about how OpenAPI powers GPTs, read our blog post.

You can also check out our other API clients:

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