Broken Link Checker: 404s, Redirect Chains & Sitemaps

Crawl any website and find broken links (404, 500, dead domains), redirect chains and sitemap problems, with the page and anchor text of each bad link. Checks internal, external, image, script and CSS links. Fast HTTP crawler, no browser. Pay only per page crawled.

Try it on Apify

Typical uses

SEO audits: broken internal links, 404s, redirect chains and noindex pages before they cost you rankings and crawl budget.
Site migrations and redesigns: run it after a launch to catch links still pointing to old URLs (301 chains) or to pages that no longer exist.
Sitemap checks: find sitemap URLs that redirect, return errors, are noindex, or are not linked from any page (orphan pages).
Agencies and freelancers: audit client sites in bulk (up to 100 websites per run) and feed the results to Google Sheets or a report.
Monitoring: schedule a weekly run and get alerted when a new broken link appears.

Pricing

Pay per use, no subscription, no monthly fee. The price depends on your Apify plan. Apify's free plan includes $5 of usage every month.

You pay per	Free plan	Starter	Scale	Business
Page One HTML page of your website crawled, with every link on it checked (internal, external, images, scripts, stylesheets). Result rows, redirects, non-HTML files, broken internal URLs and the run summary are free.	$0.0015	$0.001	$0.0008	$0.0006

Run it from your code

Get an API token in the Apify Console (Settings → Integrations), then:

curl -X POST \
  "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/plainrows~broken-link-checker/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://the-internet.herokuapp.com/"
    }
  ]
}'

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("plainrows/broken-link-checker").call(run_input={'startUrls': [{'url': 'https://the-internet.herokuapp.com/'}]})
for row in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(row)

Use it in automations and AI agents

n8n, Make, Zapier: use the official Apify integration and pick the Actor plainrows/broken-link-checker.
MCP (Claude, Cursor, other AI agents): https://mcp.apify.com?tools=plainrows/broken-link-checker

Full documentation, input options and output fields: https://apify.com/plainrows/broken-link-checker