Broken Link & Redirect Checker – 404s, Redirect Chains, Anchors
Pricing
from $1.00 / 1,000 link checkeds
Crawl a website (or check a URL list) and find broken links (404/410/5xx/DNS/SSL), redirect chains and loops, http→https hops and missing #anchors, with the source page and anchor text of every issue. Polite, robots.txt-compliant. ~$1 per 1,000 links.
You can access the Broken Link & Redirect Checker – 404s, Redirect Chains, Anchors 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.
1from apify_client import ApifyClient2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")6
7# Prepare the Actor input8run_input = {9 "startUrls": [10 { "url": "https://crawler-test.com/links/broken_links_internal" },11 { "url": "https://crawler-test.com/links/broken_links_external" },12 ],13 "maxLinksToCheck": 60,14 "maxPagesPerSite": 3,15 "checkFragments": True,16}17
18# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish19run = client.actor("tesselyn/broken-link-checker").call(run_input=run_input)20
21# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)22print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")23for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():24 print(item)25
26# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-startThe Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Broken Link & Redirect Checker – 404s, Redirect Chains, Anchors API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include:
Broken Link & Redirect Checker – 404s, Redirect Chains, Anchors API in JavaScript
Broken Link & Redirect Checker – 404s, Redirect Chains, Anchors API through CLI
Broken Link & Redirect Checker – 404s, Redirect Chains, Anchors OpenAPI definition
Broken Link & Redirect Checker – 404s, Redirect Chains, Anchors API