lychee

Lychee is a tool/library for detecting and optionally checking broken links (commonly used to crawl HTML/Markdown and report HTTP status, redirects, and errors).

Evaluated Mar 30, 2026 (29d ago)
Homepage ↗ Repo ↗ DevTools link-checking devtools documentation ci
⚙ Agent Friendliness
0
/ 100
Can an agent use this?
🔒 Security
10
/ 100
Is it safe for agents?
⚡ Reliability
0
/ 100
Does it work consistently?

Score Breakdown

⚙ Agent Friendliness

MCP Quality
0
Documentation
0
Error Messages
0
Auth Simplicity
0
Rate Limits
0

🔒 Security

TLS Enforcement
50
Auth Strength
0
Scope Granularity
0
Dep. Hygiene
0
Secret Handling
0

No implementation details were provided to assess TLS, dependency hygiene, or secret handling. As a link checker, it may perform outbound HTTP requests; callers should scope targets, enforce timeouts, and respect remote rate limits to avoid unintended load.

⚡ Reliability

Uptime/SLA
0
Version Stability
0
Breaking Changes
0
Error Recovery
0
AF Security Reliability

Best When

You have a relatively static content source (HTML/Markdown) and want deterministic broken-link detection in reviews or CI.

Avoid When

You need comprehensive JS execution, authenticated/private crawling without robust auth support, or very high-throughput checking without clear throttling controls.

Use Cases

  • Auditing documentation and websites for broken external and internal links
  • CI checks to prevent regressions from introducing dead links
  • Markdown/HTML link validation during site publishing

Not For

  • Full website crawling with deep rendering (JavaScript-heavy SPAs without SSR)
  • Security vulnerability scanning of links beyond basic HTTP reachability/status
  • Large-scale link checking without careful rate limiting and scoping

Interface

REST API
No
GraphQL
No
gRPC
No
MCP Server
No
SDK
No
Webhooks
No

Authentication

OAuth: No Scopes: No

Pricing

Free tier: No
Requires CC: No

Pricing not determined from the provided information.

Agent Metadata

Pagination
none
Idempotent
False
Retry Guidance
Not documented

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Scores are editorial opinions as of 2026-03-30.

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