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Source: https://domscan.net/docs/products/page-links

# Page links and broken link checker API API

List page links and find broken ones with bounded status checks. Use this reference to choose an operation and integrate its documented response contract.

[View product page](https://domscan.net/link-checker-api)

## Operations

GET `/v1/links` [View API reference](https://domscan.net/docs/products/page-links#getPageLinks)

## GET `/v1/links`

Operation: `getPageLinks`
Credits and authentication: 2-6
Authentication required

GET /v1/links Credits: 2-6

#### Query parameters

| Parameter | Type | required |
| --- | --- | --- |
| url | string | required |
| render | boolean | optional |
| check | boolean | optional |
| type | string Allowed values `all`, `internal`, `external` Default `all` | optional |
| limit | integer Default `200` | optional |

#### Response fields

| Field | Type |
| --- | --- |
| `url` | string |
| `final_url` | string |
| `status` | string |
| `reason` | string \| null |
| `checked_at` | string |
| `fetch` | object |
| `fetch.http_status` | integer \| null |
| `fetch.final_url` | string |
| `fetch.content_type` | string \| null |
| `fetch.bytes` | integer |
| `fetch.truncated` | boolean |
| `fetch.redirect_count` | integer |
| `fetch.duration_ms` | integer |
| `fetch.rendered` | boolean |
| `summary` | object |
| `summary.total` | integer |
| `summary.internal` | integer |
| `summary.external` | integer |
| `summary.nofollow` | integer |
| `summary.empty_anchor` | integer |
| `summary.unique_urls` | integer |
| `summary.external_domains` | integer |
| `links[]` | object[] |
| `links[]` | object |
| `links[].url` | string |
| `links[].text` | string |
| `links[].type` | string |
| `links[].rel[]` | string[] |
| `links[].nofollow` | boolean |
| `links[].image_alt` | string \| null |
| `has_more` | boolean |
| `check` | object |
| `check.unique_targets` | integer |
| `check.checked` | integer |
| `check.not_checked` | integer |
| `check.ok` | integer |
| `check.redirect` | integer |
| `check.broken` | integer |
| `check.unknown` | integer |
| `check.unchecked` | integer |
| `check.skipped` | integer |
| `check.results[]` | object[] |
| `check.results[]` | object |
| `check.results[].url` | string |
| `check.results[].state` | string |
| `check.results[].http_status` | integer \| null |
| `check.results[].final_url` | string \| null |
| `check.results[].redirect_count` | integer |
| `check.results[].reason` | string \| null |

#### Example request

```bash
curl -H "X-API-Key: $DOMSCAN_API_KEY" "https://domscan.net/v1/links?url=https%3A%2F%2Fexample.com&render=false&check=false&type=all&limit=25"
```

```javascript
const response = await fetch("https://domscan.net/v1/links?url=https%3A%2F%2Fexample.com&render=false&check=false&type=all&limit=25", {
  headers: { "X-API-Key": process.env.DOMSCAN_API_KEY },
});
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);
```

```python
import os
import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://domscan.net/v1/links?url=https%3A%2F%2Fexample.com&render=false&check=false&type=all&limit=25",
    headers={"X-API-Key": os.environ["DOMSCAN_API_KEY"]},
)
print(response.json())
```

```go
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
	"os"
)

func main() {
	req, err := http.NewRequest(http.MethodGet, "https://domscan.net/v1/links?url=https%3A%2F%2Fexample.com&render=false&check=false&type=all&limit=25", nil)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	req.Header.Set("X-API-Key", os.Getenv("DOMSCAN_API_KEY"))

	resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	defer resp.Body.Close()

	data, err := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	fmt.Println(resp.Status, string(data))
}
```

```ruby
require "json"
require "net/http"

uri = URI("https://domscan.net/v1/links?url=https%3A%2F%2Fexample.com&render=false&check=false&type=all&limit=25")
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)
request["X-API-Key"] = ENV.fetch("DOMSCAN_API_KEY")

response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true) do |http|
  http.request(request)
end
puts JSON.pretty_generate(JSON.parse(response.body))
```

#### Example response

```json
{
  "url": "https://example.com/shoes/trail-runner",
  "final_url": "https://example.com/shoes/trail-runner",
  "status": "ok",
  "reason": null,
  "checked_at": "2026-10-13T12:00:00.000Z",
  "fetch": {
    "http_status": 200,
    "final_url": "https://example.com/shoes/trail-runner",
    "content_type": "text/html",
    "bytes": 3535,
    "truncated": false,
    "redirect_count": 0,
    "duration_ms": 412,
    "rendered": false
  },
  "summary": {
    "total": 7,
    "internal": 5,
    "external": 2,
    "nofollow": 1,
    "empty_anchor": 1,
    "unique_urls": 7,
    "external_domains": 2
  },
  "links": [
    {
      "url": "https://example.com/",
      "text": "Home",
      "type": "internal",
      "rel": [],
      "nofollow": false,
      "image_alt": null
    },
    {
      "url": "https://example.com/shoes",
      "text": "Shoes",
      "type": "internal",
      "rel": [],
      "nofollow": false,
      "image_alt": null
    },
    {
      "url": "https://example.com/missing-page",
      "text": "Old sale",
      "type": "internal",
      "rel": [],
      "nofollow": false,
      "image_alt": null
    }
  ],
  "has_more": true,
  "check": {
    "unique_targets": 7,
    "checked": 7,
    "not_checked": 0,
    "ok": 4,
    "redirect": 1,
    "broken": 1,
    "unknown": 1,
    "unchecked": 0,
    "skipped": 0,
    "results": [
      {
        "url": "https://example.com/",
        "http_status": 200,
        "final_url": "https://example.com/",
        "redirect_count": 0,
        "state": "ok",
        "reason": null
      },
      {
        "url": "https://example.com/shoes",
        "http_status": 200,
        "final_url": "https://example.com/shoes",
        "redirect_count": 1,
        "state": "redirect",
        "reason": null
      },
      {
        "url": "https://example.com/missing-page",
        "http_status": 404,
        "final_url": "https://example.com/missing-page",
        "redirect_count": 0,
        "state": "broken",
        "reason": "http_404"
      },
      {
        "url": "https://partner.example.org/fit-guide",
        "http_status": 403,
        "final_url": "https://partner.example.org/fit-guide",
        "redirect_count": 0,
        "state": "unknown",
        "reason": "blocked"
      }
    ]
  }
}
```

#### HTTP status codes

- `200` OK
- `400` Bad Request
- `401` Unauthorized
- `402` Payment Required
- `429` Too Many Requests

## Reference resources

[OpenAPI 3.0](https://domscan.net/v1/openapi.json)
[Postman](https://domscan.net/v1/postman.json)
[MCP](https://domscan.net/mcp-domain-checker)
