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Broken Link Checker - Find 404 & Dead Links on Any Website

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Crawl a website and find every broken link and image (404, 410, 5xx, dead domains, SSL errors) with the page and anchor text. Alerts on new broken links. $1/1k pages + $0.50/1k links.

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Yukai Lin

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Automation

URLs or domains

urls

Optional

Main input (fill this, or startUrls). Home page (or any page) of each site to check, one per line: full URLs or bare domains like example.com. Up to 100. Invalid lines become a row with errorType "invalid_input" (not charged) instead of failing the run.

Type:array

Start URL list files or request list (optional)

startUrls

Optional

Older start URL field, kept for existing API calls. Use it to upload or link a .txt/.csv file of start URLs. Full URLs only here: bare domains such as example.com go in "URLs or domains" above. Both fields are combined (up to 100 start URLs).

Type:array

Max pages to crawl

maxPages

Optional

Stop crawling after this many pages. Every link found on these pages is checked once.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:10000

Default:100

Max links to check

maxLinksToCheck

Optional

Optional cost cap: stop after checking this many unique links (internal links first, then images and assets, then external links). At the free-plan price of $0.50 per 1,000 links, 2,000 links cost at most $1.00. Leave empty for no cap (the run still stops at your maximum charge per run).

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:1000000

Check external links

checkExternalLinks

Optional

Also check links that point to other websites. Turn off to check only your own pages.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Report restricted links

reportRestricted

Optional

Also list links that answer 401/403/429 or sit behind bot protection (login walls, LinkedIn, Cloudflare challenge pages). These usually work in a normal browser, so they are never counted as broken and are hidden by default; the count is always in the status message and SUMMARY.restricted.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Check images

checkImages

Optional

Also check every image on the crawled pages ( src). Each unique image counts as one checked link.

Type:boolean

Default:true

Check CSS, JavaScript and iframes

checkAssets

Optional

Also check stylesheet, script and iframe URLs used by the pages. Each unique URL counts as one checked link.

Type:boolean

Default:false

What to report

report

Optional

"Problems + redirects" also lists internal links that go through a redirect (they should point at the final URL). "Everything" lists every checked link with its status, response time, type and nofollow flag. Values: problems = Only problems (broken, server errors, unreachable); problems+redirects = Problems + internal links that redirect; all = Everything (full link inventory, including OK links).

Type:string

Default:problems

Options:

problemsproblems+redirectsall

Also crawl the pages in the sitemap

useSitemap

Optional

Add the pages listed in the site's XML sitemap (found from robots.txt or /sitemap.xml) to the crawl, and check each sitemap URL itself. Pages still count toward Max pages.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Sitemap URL (optional)

sitemapUrl

Optional

Use this sitemap instead of finding one automatically. Setting it turns on the sitemap option.

Type:string

Crawl scope

crawlScope

Optional

Which internal links to follow when crawling. Values: domain = Whole website (incl. subdomains); path = Same folder as the start URL; page = Only the start URLs.

Type:string

Default:domain

Options:

domainpathpage

Include URL patterns

includeUrlPatterns

Optional

Optional glob patterns; only matching pages are crawled, e.g. https://example.com/blog/**

Type:array

Exclude URL patterns

excludeUrlPatterns

Optional

Optional glob patterns of pages not to crawl, e.g. /tag/

Type:array

Parallel pages

maxConcurrency

Optional

How many pages are crawled (and links checked) at the same time. Lower it for small or slow sites.

Type:integer

Minimum:1

Maximum:30

Default:10

Page reading mode

mode

Optional

"Auto" reads the raw HTML and uses a real browser only when a site blocks plain requests. "Browser" always renders pages, so links added by JavaScript are found too (slower). Values: auto = Auto (recommended); fast = Raw HTML only; browser = Browser (JavaScript-rendered links).

Type:string

Default:auto

Options:

autofastbrowser

Respect robots.txt

respectRobotsTxt

Optional

Do not crawl pages that robots.txt disallows (they are not charged). Links to them are still checked.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Slow link threshold (ms)

slowThresholdMs

Optional

Links that take longer than this to answer are flagged slow (listed in the "Everything" report and counted in the summary).

Type:integer

Minimum:500

Maximum:60000

Default:5000

User-Agent for link checks

userAgent

Optional

Optional User-Agent header for checking links. Leave empty to identify as TidyToolsLinkCheck.

Type:string

Only report new broken links (monitoring)

onlyNewBroken

Optional

Remember this site's broken links between runs. After the first run, output only links that are newly broken since the last run, plus links that were fixed (change: fixed). SUMMARY and REPORT get a 'Since the last run' section. Use with a schedule and an Apify notification. Every page and link is still crawled, checked and charged as usual.

Type:boolean

Default:false

Monitor name

monitorName

Optional

Runs with the same name are compared. Leave empty to use the start URL's host and path.

Type:string

Plain HTTP requests from

httpVia

Optional

Some sites block requests from data centers. Auto retries from a second network before falling back to a real browser. If both are refused, Auto also tries our second server (Oracle, different IP) before a real browser.

Type:string

Default:auto

Options:

autobackenddirectvm

Time limit per page (seconds)

pageTimeoutSecs

Optional

A page that takes longer to read (all retries and the browser fallback included) is skipped and not charged; links to it are still checked. 0 = no limit.

Type:integer

Minimum:0

Maximum:900

Default:120

Proxy (optional)

proxyConfiguration

Optional

Only used for page requests sent from Apify's network. Apify proxy usage is billed to your Apify account.

Type:object

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