# Broken Link Redirect Map (`junipr/broken-link-redirect-map`) Actor

Crawl pages to identify broken links, redirect chains, status codes, and redirect-map issues.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/junipr/broken-link-redirect-map.md
- **Developed by:** [junipr](https://apify.com/junipr) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $4.90 / 1,000 page auditeds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md):

```bash
npm install apify-client
```

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```bash
pip install apify-client
```

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````bash
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# Windows
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```bash

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Broken Link Redirect Map

<!-- FIXED_INCLUSIVE_PPE_20260707_START -->
### Store Positioning

**Store title:** Broken Link Redirect Map

**Short description:** Crawl pages to identify broken links, redirect chains, status codes, and redirect-map issues.

**SEO title:** Broken Link Redirect Map — technical SEO, web, and domain audit

**SEO description:** Crawl pages to identify broken links, redirect chains, status codes, and redirect-map issues. Use it to find crawlability, indexability, security, metadata, and page-quality issues with evidence-backed rows and audit reports.

**Categories:** SEO_TOOLS, AUTOMATION

**Keywords:** broken, link, redirect, map, web/domain audit

### Fixed-Inclusive PPE Pricing

This actor uses pay-per-event pricing. Event prices include Apify platform usage; users are not expected to pay a separate platform-usage pass-through charge for the configured pricing model.

- Tier: W1 — Web/domain audit
- Primary event: `page-audited` at $0.00490 base
- Default max charge: $10.00
- Store discounts: FREE/BRONZE base, SILVER discounted, GOLD deepest approved discount

Event set:

- `actor-start`: base $0.00500, GOLD $0.00400. Broken Link Redirect Map: charged when actor start is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.
- `page-audited`: base $0.00490, GOLD $0.00392. Broken Link Redirect Map: charged when page audited is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.
- `record-extracted`: base $0.00372, GOLD $0.00298. Broken Link Redirect Map: charged when record extracted is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.
- `finding-emitted`: base $0.00372, GOLD $0.00298. Broken Link Redirect Map: charged when finding emitted is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.
- `audit-report-generated`: base $0.05000, GOLD $0.04000. Broken Link Redirect Map: charged when audit report generated is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.

### Public Task Concepts

- Audit Broken Link Redirect Map controls with capped supplied targets
- Find high-priority Broken Link Redirect Map issues before release
- Validate Broken Link Redirect Map evidence from supplied pages
- Prioritize Broken Link Redirect Map fixes with severity and proof
- Export Broken Link Redirect Map QA rows for client review
<!-- FIXED_INCLUSIVE_PPE_20260707_END -->

### What does Broken Link Redirect Map do?

Broken Link Redirect Map turns page/link snapshots into structured rows that identify broken links, redirects, redirect chains, HTTP status codes, final URLs, and cleanup recommendations.

The actor is safe by default: the default run uses bundled fixture page snapshots and makes no network calls. Enable `fetchPages` or `checkLive` only when you want capped live HTTP requests.

### Use Cases

- Find internal 404 links before publishing a site or landing page.
- Map old URLs to final URLs after a migration.
- Identify stale source links that still point at redirected pages.
- Check external resource links from a small page set.
- Produce a compact redirect-map report for SEO, web QA, or client delivery workflows.

### Input Example

```json
{
  "fetchPages": false,
  "checkLive": false,
  "maxPages": 1,
  "maxLinksPerPage": 20,
  "includeExternal": true,
  "includeReport": true,
  "maxChargeUsd": 10
}
````

`maxChargeUsd` is a hard PPE cap covering actor start, checked links, and report generation. The actor stops gracefully before any event that would exceed the cap.

To run a tiny live check later:

```json
{
  "urls": ["https://example.com/"],
  "fetchPages": true,
  "checkLive": true,
  "maxPages": 1,
  "maxLinksPerPage": 10,
  "requestTimeoutMs": 5000,
  "maxRedirects": 5
}
```

### Output Example

```json
{
  "sourceId": "example-homepage",
  "sourceUrl": "https://example.com/",
  "linkUrl": "/missing-page",
  "normalizedUrl": "https://example.com/missing-page",
  "finalUrl": "https://example.com/missing-page",
  "status": "fail",
  "severity": "high",
  "httpStatus": 404,
  "redirectCount": 0,
  "isBroken": true,
  "isRedirect": false,
  "issueCodes": ["broken-link"],
  "recommendation": "Fix or remove this link; it returns HTTP 404."
}
```

The default dataset contains one row per checked link. The key-value store includes:

- `BROKEN_LINK_REDIRECT_RESULTS.json`
- `BROKEN_LINK_REDIRECT_SUMMARY.json`
- `BROKEN_LINK_REDIRECT_REPORT.md`

### Live Check Behavior

`fetchPages: false` and `checkLive: false` is the default Store-quality path. It analyzes supplied page snapshots or the built-in fixture.

`fetchPages: true` fetches the configured page URLs and extracts anchors.

`checkLive: true` checks each link with a HEAD request, falls back to GET for common unsupported HEAD responses, and follows redirects manually up to `maxRedirects`.

Live requests are capped by:

- `maxPages`
- `maxLinksPerPage`
- `requestTimeoutMs`
- `maxRedirects`
- no browser rendering
- no proxy usage

Start with one page and 5-10 links before expanding.

### Limitations

- This is a lightweight HTTP/link QA actor, not a JavaScript-rendered crawler.
- Default runs do not fetch pages or links live.
- Regex-based HTML extraction is intentionally simple; provide explicit `links` if you need deterministic parsing from complex markup.
- It does not log in, submit forms, bypass robots, or access private pages.
- It does not collect sensitive personal data.

### Troubleshooting

- `status-unknown` means no fixture status was supplied and live checks were disabled or failed.
- `redirect-chain` means the source link should usually be updated to the final URL.
- `broken-link` means the supplied or live HTTP status is 4xx/5xx.
- If report artifacts are missing, check whether the `audit-report-generated` event limit was reached.

### FAQ

#### Does the default run crawl my site?

No. The default run uses fixture snapshots and no network calls.

#### Can I supply my own HTML?

Yes. Add `pages[].html` or explicit `pages[].links` and optional `linkStatusMap`.

#### Can it follow redirects?

Yes, only when `checkLive` is true or when fixture redirect chains are supplied.

#### Does it use a browser?

No. It uses plain HTTP requests for optional live checks.

### Changelog

- `1.0.0`: Initial local-first build with fixture link snapshots, optional capped live HTTP checks, redirect mapping, PPE billing, examples, and fixture tests.

# Actor input Schema

## `pages` (type: `array`):

Optional page snapshots with HTML or explicit links. Defaults use tiny fixture pages and make no network calls.

## `urls` (type: `array`):

Optional page URLs to fetch and extract links from. Used only when fetchPages is true.

## `fetchPages` (type: `boolean`):

Fetch page HTML for each URL. Default false avoids network usage.

## `checkLive` (type: `boolean`):

Run live HTTP status checks for each link. Default false uses supplied/fixture status snapshots.

## `maxPages` (type: `integer`):

Maximum pages to analyze in one run.

## `maxLinksPerPage` (type: `integer`):

Maximum links emitted per page after extraction.

## `requestTimeoutMs` (type: `integer`):

Timeout per live HTTP request. Used only when fetchPages or checkLive is true.

## `maxRedirects` (type: `integer`):

Maximum redirects followed during live link checks.

## `includeExternal` (type: `boolean`):

Include external http(s) links in output.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Alias for Max Targets/Maximum Records used by the Junipr actor baseline. When both are provided, actor-specific limits still apply.

## `includeReport` (type: `boolean`):

Store result JSON, summary JSON, and a Markdown redirect-map report in the key-value store.

## `maxChargeUsd` (type: `number`):

Hard local spending cap for actor-start, per-item, and report events. The actor stops before work or withholds uncharged output when the next event would exceed this amount.

## `dryRun` (type: `boolean`):

Validate input and write a dry-run summary without PPE charges or dataset output.

## `debug` (type: `boolean`):

Enable verbose logs.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "pages": [],
  "urls": [],
  "fetchPages": false,
  "checkLive": false,
  "maxPages": 1,
  "maxLinksPerPage": 20,
  "requestTimeoutMs": 8000,
  "maxRedirects": 5,
  "includeExternal": true,
  "maxItems": 1,
  "includeReport": true,
  "maxChargeUsd": 10,
  "dryRun": false,
  "debug": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `dataset` (type: `string`):

Structured broken-link and redirect rows.

## `summary` (type: `string`):

Run summary artifact stored in the default key-value store.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("junipr/broken-link-redirect-map").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("junipr/broken-link-redirect-map").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call junipr/broken-link-redirect-map --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=junipr/broken-link-redirect-map",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
{
    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "Broken Link Redirect Map",
        "description": "Crawl pages to identify broken links, redirect chains, status codes, and redirect-map issues.",
        "version": "1.0",
        "x-build-id": "C9WW3WbxmHKbe9bTU"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/junipr~broken-link-redirect-map/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-junipr-broken-link-redirect-map",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/junipr~broken-link-redirect-map/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-junipr-broken-link-redirect-map",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/junipr~broken-link-redirect-map/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-junipr-broken-link-redirect-map",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "pages": {
                        "title": "Page Snapshots",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "Optional page snapshots with HTML or explicit links. Defaults use tiny fixture pages and make no network calls.",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "object"
                        },
                        "default": []
                    },
                    "urls": {
                        "title": "Live URLs",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "Optional page URLs to fetch and extract links from. Used only when fetchPages is true.",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "default": []
                    },
                    "fetchPages": {
                        "title": "Fetch Pages",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "Fetch page HTML for each URL. Default false avoids network usage.",
                        "default": false
                    },
                    "checkLive": {
                        "title": "Check Links Live",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "Run live HTTP status checks for each link. Default false uses supplied/fixture status snapshots.",
                        "default": false
                    },
                    "maxPages": {
                        "title": "Maximum Pages",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 50,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Maximum pages to analyze in one run.",
                        "default": 1
                    },
                    "maxLinksPerPage": {
                        "title": "Maximum Links Per Page",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 500,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Maximum links emitted per page after extraction.",
                        "default": 20
                    },
                    "requestTimeoutMs": {
                        "title": "HTTP Timeout",
                        "minimum": 1000,
                        "maximum": 30000,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Timeout per live HTTP request. Used only when fetchPages or checkLive is true.",
                        "default": 8000
                    },
                    "maxRedirects": {
                        "title": "Maximum Redirect Hops",
                        "minimum": 0,
                        "maximum": 10,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Maximum redirects followed during live link checks.",
                        "default": 5
                    },
                    "includeExternal": {
                        "title": "Include External Links",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "Include external http(s) links in output.",
                        "default": true
                    },
                    "maxItems": {
                        "title": "Max Items",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 50,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Alias for Max Targets/Maximum Records used by the Junipr actor baseline. When both are provided, actor-specific limits still apply.",
                        "default": 1
                    },
                    "includeReport": {
                        "title": "Generate Summary Report",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "Store result JSON, summary JSON, and a Markdown redirect-map report in the key-value store.",
                        "default": true
                    },
                    "maxChargeUsd": {
                        "title": "Maximum Charge (USD)",
                        "minimum": 0,
                        "maximum": 1000,
                        "type": "number",
                        "description": "Hard local spending cap for actor-start, per-item, and report events. The actor stops before work or withholds uncharged output when the next event would exceed this amount.",
                        "default": 10
                    },
                    "dryRun": {
                        "title": "Dry Run",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "Validate input and write a dry-run summary without PPE charges or dataset output.",
                        "default": false
                    },
                    "debug": {
                        "title": "Debug Logging",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "Enable verbose logs.",
                        "default": false
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "usageTotalUsd": {
                                "type": "number",
                                "example": 0.00005
                            },
                            "usageUsd": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "number",
                                        "example": 0.00005
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```