I had a short window this week to evaluate Bulk URL Status Checker as a data source. Here is the condensed write-up of what the data looks like, what surprised me, and the bits of infrastructure that paid off.

The source

Bulk URL Status Checker Broken Link & Redirect Audit Check the HTTP status of thousands of URLs in seconds. The relevant questions for any new source are always: is the markup stable, is pagination sensible, and how aggressively does it rate-limit. For this one, all three answers are "good enough that you can build on it" -- which is honestly more than I can say for a lot of supposedly easy targets.

The schema

What you get back per record:

url -- url

statusCode -- status code

statusMessage -- status message

isBroken -- is broken

isRedirect -- is redirect

redirectChain -- redirect chain

finalUrl -- final url

responseTime -- response time

checkedAt -- checked at

Nothing exotic, which is exactly what you want from a feed.…