How to Scrape Broken Link — Free No-Code Guide (2026)

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If you need to pull Broken Link data at scale and there's no clean official API, this guide shows how to export it to JSON, CSV or Excel in a couple of minutes — with no scraping code to maintain.

We'll use the Broken Link Checker - Find Dead 404 Links, a hosted scraper on the Apify platform. You only need a free Apify token — no Broken Link login, no proxies, no reverse-engineering.

What data you get

Each run returns structured records with fields like:

sourceUrl
linkUrl
anchorText
linkType
statusCode
ok
error
checkedAt

Results are paginated automatically — you can pull thousands of rows per run and export them as JSON, CSV, Excel, JSONL or XML.

Option 1 — No code (Apify Console)

Open the actor: https://apify.com/logiover/broken-link-checker
Click Try for free.
Leave the input empty for a broad sample, or set the fields below.
Run it, then Export the dataset as CSV/JSON/Excel.

Option 2 — Node.js

npm install apify-broken-link-checker

const scrape = require("apify-broken-link-checker");

(async () => {
  const items = await scrape({}, { token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
  console.log(items.length, "results");
  console.log(items[0]);
})();

Option 3 — Python

pip install broken-link-checker

from broken_link_checker import scrape

items = scrape({}, token="YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
print(len(items), "results")
print(items[0])

Grab a free token at https://console.apify.com/account/integrations.

Input options

Field	Type	What it does
`startUrls`	array	Start URLs
`maxPagesToCrawl`	integer	Max pages to crawl
`checkExternalLinks`	boolean	Check external links
`onlyBroken`	boolean	Only output broken links
`maxConcurrency`	integer	Max concurrency

Common use cases

Build a fresh Broken Link dataset for analysis or dashboards
Feed Broken Link records into your own app, CRM or spreadsheet
Monitor changes on a schedule and get alerts via webhooks
Enrich leads or research with up-to-date Broken Link data

Automation & export

Because it runs on Apify, you can schedule it, trigger it via webhook, and pipe results into Google Sheets, S3, Zapier, Make or n8n. Every run's dataset is downloadable as CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel or XML.