Find dead outbound links on an article
Quillbit Tools
Check every link on a single article or resource page and list the dead ones: 404s, 5xx errors and domains that no longer resolve, each with its anchor text. Useful for link rot clean-up on old blog posts, resource pages and Wikipedia-style reference lists. This example checks the Wikipedia article on GeoCities.
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The Broken Link Checker – Crawl a Website for 404s Actor will start running based on the input automatically. You can also change all the input fields, like website start url, max pages to crawl, and more, to match your specific use case.
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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 link, status, broken, and more.
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The final output is delivered in JSON, CSV, or Excel format, ready to be plugged into your workflow. You can also run the "Find dead outbound links on an article" task via API.
