Still on Drupal 7? Security support for Drupal 7 ended on 5 January 2025. Please visit our Drupal 7 End of Life resources page to review all of your options.The Link checker module extracts links from your content when saved and periodically tries to detect broken hypertext links by checking the remote sites and evaluating the HTTP response codes. It shows all broken links in the reports/logs section and on the content edit page, if a link check has been failed. An author specific broken links report is also available in "My Account".
Features:
- Scan configurable fields on each entity incl. node, comment, block etc.
- Checks internal and by default external links
- JSON:API support [from 2.1.0-alpha1]
- Parallel link checking with optional HTTPRL module
- Configurable link check intervals
- Can update permanently moved (301) links after specified link check fail count
- Can unpublish nodes after specified file not found (404) fail count
- Output created by input filters is supported
- Supported HTML elements: a, area, audio, embed, iframe, img, object, param, source, video
- Supported link protocols: http, https
System requirements:
- SQL server with subselect support (MySQL 5.0 or higher, PostgreSQL 7.4 or higher)
Branches:
2.1.x- Removed DER dependency, added JSON:API support and tests2.0.x- Drupal 9.4+, 10,0+ support
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Supporting organizations:
Maintenance
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Maintenance/Support
Project information
Seeking co-maintainer(s)
Maintainers are looking for help reviewing issues.17,512 sites report using this module
- Created by kubrt on , updated
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