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).
Score Breakdown
⚙ Agent Friendliness
🔒 Security
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
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
Authentication
Pricing
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Scores are editorial opinions as of 2026-03-30.