You can access the Broken Link Checker 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.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {
9    "urls": [
10        "https://apify.com",
11        "https://example.com",
12    ],
13    "retries": 2,
14}
15
16# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
17run = client.actor("parseforge/broken-link-checker").call(run_input=run_input)
18
19# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
20print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
21for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
22    print(item)
23
24# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

Broken Link Checker - Check URLs for 404s & Redirects API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Broken Link Checker API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

Other API clients include:

Broken Link Checker API in JavaScript

Broken Link Checker API through CLI

Broken Link Checker OpenAPI definition

Broken Link Checker API

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