Broken Link Checker: Find Dead Links, 404s & Redirects
Pricing
from $0.20 / 1,000 checked urls
Find broken links (404, 5xx, DNS, timeouts) and redirect chains on one website. Use for site audits after a redesign. Input: startUrls (one site or its sitemap), maxPages, maxUrlsChecked, checkExternalLinks. Output per URL: status code, category, redirect hops, source pages, anchor text.
You can access the Broken Link Checker: Find Dead Links, 404s & Redirects programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.
1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token5const client = new ApifyClient({6 token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',7});8
9// Prepare Actor input10const input = {11 "startUrls": [12 "https://crawlee.dev"13 ],14 "maxPages": 2,15 "maxUrlsChecked": 15,16 "requestIntervalSecs": 0.517};18
19// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish20const run = await client.actor("phaux/broken-link-checker").call(input);21
22// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)23console.log('Results from dataset');24console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);25const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();26items.forEach((item) => {27 console.dir(item);28});29
30// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docsThe Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use Broken Link Checker: Find Dead Links, 404s & Redirects API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$npm install apify-clientOther API clients include: