🔗 Multi-Link Broken Link Checker

🚀 Check hundreds of URLs in seconds. Find broken links, redirects, 404s, timeouts, and slow pages across your website or content. No coding, no browser extensions.

Pull structured records from Broken Link Checker — clean fields ready as CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel, or XML for downstream pipelines.

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parseforge/broken-link-checker on Apify. Call: ApifyClient("TOKEN").actor("parseforge/broken-link-checker").call(run_input={...}), then client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items for results. Key inputs: urls (array, default ["https://apify.com", "https://example.com"]), timeout (integer, default 10000), followRedirects (boolean, default true), maxRedirects (integer, default 10), slowThreshold (integer, default 2000). Full actor spec: fetch build via GET https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/parseforge~broken-link-checker (Bearer TOKEN). Get token: https://console.apify.com/account/integrations

The Multi-Link Broken Link Checker validates any list of URLs and returns 10+ fields per link: HTTP status code, redirect chain and final destination, response time in milliseconds, error messages, protection detection, and a working/broken/slow classification. Paste hundreds of URLs and get a consolidated health report in seconds.

The Actor follows redirects by default (configurable depth up to 50 hops), measures response times, flags slow pages above a custom threshold, and catches timeouts, connection errors, and bot-protection blocks. Output downloads as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML for import into SEO tools, CMS dashboards, or QA pipelines.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
SEO teams, web developers, QA engineers, content managers, digital agencies, marketing ops	SEO audits, pre-launch QA, content link validation, migration checks, monitoring dashboards, dead-link detection

📋 What the Multi-Link Broken Link Checker does

One input, five detection modes:

• ❌ Broken link detection. Identifies 404s, 5xx errors, connection failures, and DNS errors.
• 🔄 Redirect tracking. Follows redirect chains and reports the final destination URL.
• ⏱️ Response time measurement. Measures load time in milliseconds per URL.
• 🐢 Slow page flagging. Marks URLs that exceed your custom response-time threshold.
• 🛡️ Protection detection. Identifies URLs that block automated access with CAPTCHAs or bot walls.

Each URL result includes the original URL, HTTP status code, status text, response time, redirect chain, final URL, error message, protection flag, and working/broken/slow classification.

💡 Why it matters: broken links hurt SEO rankings, frustrate users, and signal neglect. Manually clicking through hundreds of links is tedious and error-prone. This Actor validates them in bulk and returns a structured report you can act on immediately.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: category, checkedTimestamp, finalUrl, isBroken, isProtected, isRedirect, isSlow, redirectChain, redirectUrl, requestTimeoutMs, responseTimeMs, statusCode, statusText, url. All 14 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

⚠️ Good to Know: some URLs may return false positives due to bot protection (Cloudflare, Akamai). The Actor flags these as "protected" rather than "broken" so you can distinguish real 404s from access blocks.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the Multi-Link Broken Link Checker page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Paste your URL list, set timeout and slow-page threshold.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor validate your links.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to link health report: 2-3 minutes. No coding required.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

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