Website Link Extractor

What does Website Link Extractor do?

Give it any website and it returns every link on it — where each link points, the text it was written as, whether it stays on the site or leads elsewhere, and which page it was found on.

Paste a domain, press Start, and download the result as JSON, CSV or Excel — or pull it straight from the Apify API.

Why use Website Link Extractor?

• Audit a site — get a complete map of its pages in one run.
• Find broken or unwanted links — export everything and check it in a spreadsheet.
• See who a site links to — collect its outbound links to partners, sources or competitors.
• Collect documents — pull every PDF or spreadsheet a site publishes.
• Feed another tool — the links come out as a clean list, ready to hand to another scraper.

How to use Website Link Extractor

1. Enter one or more websites or pages. A bare domain like example.com is fine.
2. Set Maximum pages to read and How deep to follow links.
3. Optionally choose Which links to return — all, internal only, or external only.
4. Click Start, then open the Output tab when it finishes.

Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
Websites or pages (start_urls)	array	Yes	Where to start.
Maximum pages to read (max_pages)	integer	No	How many pages to visit per site. Default 20.
How deep to follow links (max_depth)	integer	No	0 reads only the page given, 1 also reads pages linked from it. Default 1.
Which links to return (link_scope)	select	No	all, internal or external. Default all.
Stay on the same website while crawling (stay_on_site)	boolean	No	Controls which pages are visited, not which links are returned. On by default.
Only include links matching (include_pattern)	string	No	Optional regular expression, e.g. /blog/.
Exclude links matching (exclude_pattern)	string	No	Optional regular expression, e.g. \?utm_.
Proxy configuration (proxyConfiguration)	object	No	Optional. Most sites need no proxy.

Example input:

{
  "start_urls": ["https://www.python.org"],
  "max_pages": 20,
  "max_depth": 1,
  "link_scope": "external"
}

Output

One row per unique link found:

{
  "url": "https://pypi.org/",
  "text": "PyPI",
  "type": "page",
  "is_internal": false,
  "domain": "pypi.org",
  "found_on": "https://www.python.org/",
  "depth": 0,
  "rel": null,
  "source_site": "https://www.python.org/"
}

You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel.

Data fields

Field	Description
url	Where the link points.
text	The clickable text of the link.
type	page, document, image or media, based on what it points at.
is_internal	true if it stays on the same site.
domain	The domain it points to, handy for grouping outbound links.
found_on	The page the link was found on.
depth	How many clicks from the starting page that page was.
rel	The link's rel attribute, such as nofollow, when it has one.
source_site	Which of your start URLs this came from.

What to expect

Each unique destination is returned once, no matter how many times it appears — a link in the header of every page gives you one row, not one per page. Anchors, mailto: and javascript: links are not included, since they are not pages.

How much does it cost to extract links?

Very little. Six pages of python.org produced 317 links in fourteen seconds and cost under two tenths of a cent.

Tips

• Start with depth 1. It covers a site's main navigation. Raise it only if you need to go deeper.
• Use link_scope: external to see everywhere a site sends its visitors.
• Use the exclude pattern to drop tracking URLs, for example \?utm_.

FAQ and support

Why do I get fewer links than I expected? Each destination is listed once. Raise Maximum pages or How deep to follow links to cover more of the site.

Does it find links added by JavaScript? It reads the HTML a site serves. Links that only appear after scripts run may not be included.

Is scraping links legal? This Actor collects only publicly available data. You are responsible for how you use it, and you should respect the terms of the sites you crawl. If in doubt, take legal advice.

Found a bug, or need a field that is not here? Open an issue on the Issues tab.

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