Extract All Links From a Website: internal and external

Extract all links from a website, up to 500 pages a run and 2,000 links per page: absolute URL, anchor text, internal or external, nofollow and rel, target, scheme, fragment and query flags, plus per page the counts of internal, external, nofollow, mailto and tel links. Robots-aware, no browser. Pay per link.

Why this scraper

• Only delivered results are charged. Inputs that fail come back as clear error records at no cost.
• One plain fetch per page, parsed with lxml, no browser and no start fee. Measured on the platform: 300 links from three pages (python.org, a Wikipedia article, BBC News) in 11 seconds for four tenths of a cent.
• Every link as a usable row: the absolute URL (relative hrefs and <base> resolved), anchor text (title or aria-label when the link is an image), internal or external by registered domain (docs.python.org counts as python.org, www.bbc.co.uk as bbc.co.uk), the full rel value with a nofollow flag, target, scheme, fragment and query flags, and how often the page links that URL.
• Page totals on every row: unique link count, internal, external, nofollow, mailto and tel counts, so a site audit reads off the first row per page.
• Robots-aware: each host's robots.txt is read once per run and a closed path comes back as a free ROBOTS_DISALLOWED row (measured: Google's /search path).

Who this is for

Paste page URLs in urls (up to 500 per run), set maxLinksPerPage (default 500, ceiling 2,000, page order), choose scope (all, internal or external) and leave uniqueOnly on for one row per URL, or switch it off to see every link element. Built for internal-linking audits, outbound-link and nofollow checks, competitor link research, sitemap seeding and crawling pipelines that need the link graph of a page without a browser.

Who this is not for

No browser is used, so links that a page adds with JavaScript after loading are not seen. Only <a href> links count; buttons, forms and links inside iframes are not. mailto: and tel: links are counted on the page row but never delivered as addresses. Internal versus external uses the registered domain with a short list of two-part suffixes (co.uk, com.au and the like), not the full public suffix list. A page that answers 403 or 429 comes back as a free BLOCKED row, a page without any link as a free NO_LINKS row.

Input fields

Field	Type	Required or default	What it does
urls	list of text	required	One per row, up to 500: full page URLs (https://...). Each host's robots.txt is respected.
maxLinksPerPage	number	500	Cost ceiling per page, in page order.
scope	text (all, internal, external)	all	all, internal (same registered domain) or external.
uniqueOnly	true/false	true	On: a URL linked several times on the page is delivered once, with the first anchor text and the number of occurrences. Off: every link element is a row.

Input example

{
    "urls": [
        "https://www.python.org/",
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping"
    ],
    "maxLinksPerPage": 500,
    "scope": "all",
    "uniqueOnly": true
}

Output example

Field	Type	What it holds	Example
pageUrl	text	The page this link was found on.	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping
position	number	The place in the source's own order, counting from 1.	1
url	text	The address the link points to, made absolute.	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
anchorText	text	The clickable text of the link; empty on an image link.	Main page
isInternal	true/false	True when the link stays on the same domain.	True
domain	text	The domain the link points to.	en.wikipedia.org
rel	text	Filled when the link carries a rel attribute, for example nofollow or sponsored.
isNofollow	true/false	True when the link carries rel=nofollow and so passes no link value.	False
target	text	Filled when the link opens elsewhere, for example target=_blank.
scheme	text	The scheme of the link: https, http, mailto or tel.	https
hasFragment	true/false	True when the link points at a spot inside a page, with a # in it.	False
hasQuery	true/false	True when the link carries a query string.	False
occurrences	number	How often this same link stands on the page.	2
pageTitle	text	The title of the page the link was found on.	Web scraping - Wikipedia
pageLinkCount	number	How many links the page holds in total.	327
pageInternalCount	number	How many of those stay on the same domain.	247
pageExternalCount	number	How many point to another domain.	80
pageNofollowCount	number	How many carry rel=nofollow.	64
pageMailtoCount	number	How many are mail links.
pageTelCount	number	How many are telephone links.

Error codes: INVALID_URL, ROBOTS_DISALLOWED, NOT_HTML, NO_LINKS, FETCH_FAILED, BLOCKED.

One delivered row looks like this:

{
  "pageUrl": "https://www.python.org/",
  "position": 1,
  "url": "https://www.python.org/",
  "anchorText": "Python",
  "isInternal": true,
  "domain": "www.python.org",
  "rel": null,
  "isNofollow": false,
  "target": null,
  "scheme": "https",
  "hasFragment": false,
  "hasQuery": false,
  "occurrences": 2,
  "pageTitle": "Welcome to Python.org",
  "pageLinkCount": 129,
  "pageInternalCount": 86,
  "pageExternalCount": 43,
  "pageNofollowCount": 0,
  "pageMailtoCount": 0,
  "pageTelCount": 0,
  "status": "ok"
}

Related actors from steadydata

• page-images-extractor: the images of the same page, with alt text
• url-status-redirect-checker: the status of every link you found
• sitemap-urls: every URL of the site, from its sitemaps

Pricing

Pay per event: one link-listed event per delivered result. No charge for inputs that fail, no separate platform-usage surcharge.

Free Apify plan: this actor delivers up to 25 rows per run for accounts on the Apify free plan, and then stops with a message. That limit is set by us, not by Apify. It exists so the actor keeps paying for itself for the people who do pay. Any paid Apify plan runs it at full size, billed per delivered row, with failed rows never charged.

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FAQ

Is personal data collected? No. Links and anchor texts are what the page publishes; e-mail addresses and phone numbers behind mailto: and tel: links are counted, not delivered.

Does it check whether the links work? No, it lists them. Feed the url column to the URL status and redirect checker below for status codes and redirect chains.

How does uniqueOnly change the count? On, a URL linked five times is one row with occurrences 5 and the first non-empty anchor text; pageLinkCount is the number of unique URLs. Off, every link element is its own row.

Can it crawl a whole site? Not by itself: it reads the pages you give it. Combine it with the sitemap URLs actor to get every page, then run this actor on those URLs.

What does a run cost when a page fails? Nothing. ROBOTS_DISALLOWED, NOT_HTML, NO_LINKS, FETCH_FAILED, INVALID_URL and BLOCKED rows are free; only delivered links are charged.

What happens when the source changes? Sources change from time to time; that is the nature of this work. The actor is monitored daily and fixed fast, and while it is broken you are not charged, because only delivered results cost anything.

Can I call it from my own code, like an API? Yes. Every run is available through the Apify API: start it with one HTTP request, then read the results as JSON, CSV or Excel from the dataset endpoint, or use the official Python and JavaScript clients. The input is the same JSON as in the input example above, so a scheduled script, a Make or Zapier step or an AI agent can call it without any changes.