Broken Links Checker

Checks absolute HTTP/HTTPS links in your source during CI.

Features

• Scans html, cshtml, md, or any other files including links.
• Ignores relative links.
• URL ignore patterns with wildcards (example.com/*, *.local/*)
• Configurable allowed status codes, timeout, and concurrency.
• Fail the build on broken links or emit warnings.

Usage (YAML)

steps:
- task: BrokenLinksChecker@0
  inputs:
    includeGlobs: |
      **/*.html
      **/*.htm
      **/*.cshtml
      **/*.razor
    excludeFileGlobs: |
      **/node_modules/**
      **/dist/**
    ignoreUrlPatterns: |
      *.local/*
      example.com/*
    failOnBroken: true
    concurrency: 16
    timeoutMs: 10000
    allowedStatus: 200-299,301,302,307,308