Appleseed

Appleseed proactively discovers and checks every link across your Craft CMS site, helping you find and fix broken links before your visitors do.

Features

Hybrid link discovery -- scans entry fields in the database and spiders rendered pages
Smart HTTP checking -- HEAD-first with GET fallback, retries with exponential backoff, per-domain rate limiting
CP Dashboard -- summary cards, filterable results table, detail views, ignore/rescan actions
Scheduled scans -- daily, weekly, or monthly automatic scanning
Entry-save scanning -- optionally check links whenever an entry is saved
Email notifications -- get notified when broken links exceed your threshold
CSV export -- download results for offline review
Ignore patterns -- regex-based URL exclusion
Console commands -- craft appleseed/scan for CLI/cron usage
Badge count -- broken link count shown in the CP nav