# stevenvachon/broken-link-checker

Find broken links, missing images, etc within your HTML.

Repository: https://github.com/stevenvachon/broken-link-checker
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/broken-link-checker
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: links, urls, seo, html5, link-checker, http, whatwg, nodejs
Last push: 2024-01-08T09:26:30+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4253, "days_push": 968, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2075, forks 307 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:11.176100+00:00)

## What it is
A Node.js library and CLI tool (blc) that crawls HTML to find broken links, missing images, and other dead URLs. It supports concurrent, streamed, cached checking with robots.txt compliance and a programmatic API.

## Use cases
- find broken links on my website
- check for 404 errors site-wide
- detect missing images in html pages
- run an seo link audit
- crawl a site for dead urls
- validate hyperlinks in html files

## When to choose
- you need a fast, configurable link checker with a Node.js API
- you want CLI site-wide scanning with robots.txt compliance
- you need detailed per-link reporting for maintenance

## When to avoid
- you need HTTP proxy support, which is not directly provided
- you need a maintained GUI-based link checker
- your project requires non-JavaScript tooling

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: http-client, web-scraping, parser, cli
- domain: web-development, developer-tools
- platform: cli, cross-platform
- tags: link-checker, broken-links, html-parsing, seo-audit, 404-detection, seo, automation, nodejs

## Member repositories
- stevenvachon/broken-link-checker (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:11.176100+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:56:18.911538+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/stevenvachon/broken-link-checker (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:11.176100+00:00, sha bf5fa68dcbf1)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/broken-link-checker (fetched 2026-08-29T10:36:45.714625+00:00, sha 1dfb4e2929ee)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.