This action uses: https://github.com/stevenvachon/broken-link-checker

Find broken links in your website.

Create a new file in your repository .github/workflows/action.yml.

Copy-paste the following workflow in your action.yml file:

name: Broken link check
on: [push]

jobs:
  broken_link_checker_job:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: Check for broken links
    steps:
      - name: Check for broken links
        id: link-report
        uses: celinekurpershoek/link-checker@v1.0.2
        with:
          # Required:
          url: "https://..."
          # optional:
          honorRobotExclusions: false
          ignorePatterns: "github,google"
          recursiveLinks: false # Check all URLs on all reachable pages (could take a while)
      - name: Get the result
        run: echo "${{steps.link-report.outputs.result}}"

Type: Boolean Default value: true The script does not scan pages that search engine crawlers would not follow. https://github.com/stevenvachon/broken-link-checker#honorrobotexclusions

type: String Default value: '' A comma-separated string of matched URLs to ignore. Check documentation about patterns here: https://github.com/stevenvachon/broken-link-checker#excludedkeywords

type: Boolean Default value: false A boolean to do a site-wide check, it will add the blc -ro param to the command

• Create issue if broken URLs are found
• Parse each broken link in report on new line

There is a broken link in this document as a test: A broken link