Broken Link Checker

What it does

Find broken internal links and common on-page SEO problems in one crawl. It fetches the server-delivered HTML of each page, checks its internal links, and flags missing titles, descriptions, canonicals, Open Graph tags and duplicates. You get one record per page plus a site summary with a 0–100 score.

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Input and output from a local run

We ran the Actor locally on the crawlee.dev homepage with a five-page cap and link checks on. The page record shows one Open Graph notice. The run summary shows it checked 8 internal links and found none broken.

Input JSON

{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://crawlee.dev"
    }
  ],
  "discoverSitemap": false,
  "maxPages": 5,
  "sameHostOnly": true,
  "followLinks": false,
  "checkLinks": true,
  "maxLinkChecks": 10
}

Output excerpt

{
  "url": "https://crawlee.dev/",
  "finalUrl": "https://crawlee.dev/",
  "status": 200,
  "title": "Crawlee · Build reliable crawlers. Fast.",
  "h1": [
    "Build reliable web scrapers. Fast."
  ],
  "canonical": "https://crawlee.dev/",
  "wordCount": 237,
  "counts": {
    "error": 0,
    "warning": 0,
    "notice": 1
  },
  "findings": [
    {
      "checkId": "opengraph.description_missing",
      "severity": "notice",
      "message": "Open Graph description is missing."
    }
  ]
}

Run summary excerpt

{
  "pagesAudited": 1,
  "score": 99.8,
  "linkChecks": 8,
  "brokenLinks": []
}

Price and limits

$0.004 per successfully audited page. Internal link checks are free, within the configured cap.

• Maximum 5,000 scheduled pages and 10,000 unique internal link checks per run.
• Maximum 10 redirects per HTTP operation; HTML capped at 10 MB and sitemap responses at 20 MB; at most 100 sitemap documents.
• HTTP-only: no JavaScript rendering, rendered layout, or Core Web Vitals measurement.

When a free tool is better

Use Google Search Console if you only need Google's view of crawl and indexing problems on a site you've verified. It's free. This Actor works on any public site, needs no verification, and returns raw JSON you can feed into your own checks. Google Search Console documentation.