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Find broken links in Excel?
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Hello,
I have a large list of URL's in an excel sheet and I am looking for a way to check them for 404 errors. Please help!
- Adam
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If this is something you check for often (which it probably should be), you might want to check out a program like Screaming Frog. That makes it really easy to find 404s and any other response codes.
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If you want to use Excel, check out this macro which should be what you're looking for - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1118221/sort-dead-hyperlinks-in-excel-with-vba
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Do a Google Search for "bulk url checker" and a ton of results come up (most you can export back to excel).
Also, possible solution here: http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/excel-questions/507688-excel-url-check-help.html
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