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broken-link-scan

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About broken-link-scan

A skill that uses Playwright MCP to scan a page for broken links. It checks up to 50 links, tests internal destinations, and reports issues such as error pages, redirect chains, empty URLs, and javascript:void links.

Key features

  1. 01Extract links from a page
  2. 02Check up to 50 links
  3. 03Test internal destinations
  4. 04Flag errors and redirect chains
  5. 05Report empty and javascript:void links

Use cases

  1. 01Find broken links on a webpage
  2. 02Check internal pages for error responses
  3. 03Review page links before a site update

MCP support

Uses Playwright MCP to navigate to a URL and extract page links, then checks internal destinations for errors. External links are noted but not crawled.

Install

Copy the command and run it in a terminal.

$npx skills add https://github.com/quality-max/free-qa-skills --skill broken-link-scan

After installing, type/broken-link-scanin Claude Code to confirm it loaded.

Details

From the project README

Broken Link Scanner

Find every broken link on a page. No signup required.

Prerequisites

  • Playwright MCP (comes with Claude Code)

Trigger

  • "Find broken links on https://..."
  • "Check for 404s on my site"
  • "Scan links on this page"

Workflow

  1. Navigate to the URL using mcp__playwright__browser_navigate
  2. Extract all links using mcp__playwright__browser_evaluate:
() => {
  return Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('a[href]')).map(a => ({
    text: a.textContent.trim().substring(0, 50),
    href: a.href,
    isExternal: a.host !== location.host
  }));
}

  1. For each link (up to 50), check status:

    • Internal links: navigate and check for error pages
    • External links: note them but don't crawl (avoid rate limits)
    • Flag: 404, 500, redirect chains, empty href, javascript:void

  2. Output:

## Broken Link Report: [URL]

**Scanned: 34 links** (28 internal, 6 external)

### Broken (3)
- "About Us" → /about-us — 404 Not Found
- "Old Blog" → /blog/2023 — 301 → 404
- "Partner" → https://dead-link.com — timeout

### Redirects (2)
- "Login" → /login — 301 → /auth/login
- "Docs" → /documentation — 302 → /docs/v2

### External (not checked)
- https://github.com/...
- https://twitter.com/...

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