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Check only the external links on a page

Only links pointing away from the site are checked. External links are the ones that rot, because nobody on your side is watching them, and separating them from internal ones keeps a report to what is actually actionable.

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Broken Link Checker - Dead Links, 404 Checker, Bulk URL Status
Broken Link Checker - Dead Links, 404 Checker, Bulk URL Statusneverempty/link-checker
URL
State
Status
Reason
+8 fields
Text
Number
Boolean
List
Object

Input

Pages to read links from
url:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping
Links to check directly
Check links to the same site:false
Check links to other sites:true
Maximum links to check:60
Links checked at once:5
Requests at once to the same server:2
Respect robots.txt when reading the pages:true
Timeout per request (seconds):20
Retries on temporary failures:3

Output fields

URL
State
Status
Reason
Naive check would call this broken
Method used
HEAD rejected with
Redirects
Final URL
Same site
Elapsed (ms)
Linked from

How it works

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The Broken Link Checker - Dead Links, 404 Checker, Bulk URL Status Actor will start running based on the input automatically. You can also change all the input fields, like pages to read links from, links to check directly, and more, to match your specific use case.

Receive the "Check only the external links on a page" output

Monitor the progress in real time. You will be notified as soon as your dataset is complete and ready for review. Each result includes data such as URL, state, status, and more.

Integrate into your workflow

The final output is delivered in JSON, CSV, or Excel format, ready to be plugged into your workflow. You can also run the "Check only the external links on a page" task via API.

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