BrokenBuster

Intelligent broken-link scanner. Privacy-first: all HTTP checks run in your browser.

**Intelligent broken-link scanner. Privacy-first: all checks run locally in your browser. No data collection.** ### Detailed Description (Full Description) **Keep your website's user experience and SEO healthy with BrokenBuster, the most privacy-respecting link scanner for Chromium.** BrokenBuster is a professional-grade broken link checker built for speed, accuracy, and absolute privacy. Unlike other link scanners that proxy your requests through their own servers, BrokenBuster performs every "live check" directly from your browser. **Key Features:** * **Privacy-First Architecture**: Your page content and scan results are never sent to a BrokenBuster backend. All scans happen 100% locally on your device. * **Visual Highlights**: Instantly see broken, redirected, slow, and bot-blocked links highlighted directly on the webpage with accessible status markers. * **Smart Bot-Wall Detection**: Built-in fingerprinting for Cloudflare, Akamai, and Imperva ensures that protected pages are correctly identified, eliminating "fake" 403 errors. * **Wayback Machine Integration**: Instantly find last-known good versions of dead links with one-click access to the Wayback Machine archive. * **Advanced Controls**: Fine-tune your scan with adjustable concurrency (1–24 parallel checks), customizable timeouts, and TTL-based caching. * **Professional Exports**: Download report summaries in CSV or standalone interactive HTML formats for SEO audits and client reporting. * **Manage Ignore Lists**: Easily add domains, exact URLs, or regex patterns to skip during future scans. **Ideal For:** * **SEO Audit Specialists**: Quickly audit page health without heavy crawler overhead or complex setups. * **Content Managers**: Use our smart **link scanner** to ensure all references in your articles stay active. * **Web Developers**: A reliable **broken link checker** for verifying status in staging and pre-flight environments. Built for the modern web (MV3). No account required. No trackers. Zero data collection. Reliable **dead link scanning** for a healthy website. --- ## 2. Privacy & Data Disclosure ### Permission Justification (for reviewers) * **`<all_urls>`**: Required to perform direct `fetch()` requests to external domains discovered on the page to verify their status. * **`activeTab`**: Used to identify the current tab context and inject the link highlight styles and extraction script. * **`sidePanel`**: Provides a persistent sidebar UI for reviewing results without hiding page content. * **`storage`**: Essential for persisting local settings, ignore lists, and scan results between sessions. ### Data Use * **User Data Collection**: None. * **Tracking**: None. * **Sensitive Information**: BrokenBuster does not collect, store, or transmit any user-identifiable data or browsing history. --- ## 3. Help & Support * **Support URL**: https://handancorp.com/support * **Contact Email**: support@handancorp.com * **Website**: https://handancorp.com