Redirect-chain and gated-content false positives are what make most broken-link reports get ignored after a couple of weeks, since the first two reports arrive full of noise. Since this usually needs a small custom crawler script rather than a pure no-code trigger, CodeWP is a reasonable place to generate that scan logic.
Automation
Scan for broken links and email a weekly report
A scenario prompt that converts a described broken-link-scan workflow into a recipe covering false positives, redirect chains, and prioritizing which links matter.
Works with Claude / GPT210 uses★ 4
The prompt
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A site owner describes their process like this: "Once a week, I want the site scanned for broken links, both internal and external, and a report emailed to me listing which pages have them, so I can fix them before they hurt SEO." AVAILABLE TOOLS: [Scheduled link-checker script (trigger), custom code / cron, site crawler, email/SMTP] Turn this into an implementation-ready automation recipe, thinking through what the plain description leaves ambiguous: 1. Trigger: the exact schedule and scope, deciding whether the crawl covers every published page or excludes ones like an archived blog section that's intentionally left as-is and would otherwise generate noise every single week. 2. Conditions: state the exact logic for what counts as "broken." A link returning a 302 redirect to a working page isn't broken, but a redirect chain of four hops ending in a 404 is, and a temporary 503 from a flaky third-party site during the scan window is a false positive that shouldn't appear in the report at all. 3. Actions in order: group the report by page rather than by link, so a page with five broken links shows once with five entries instead of appearing five separate times, then sort by whether the broken link is internal (higher priority to fix) or external. 4. Failure handling: if the crawler times out on a large site before finishing, should the report send with a note that the scan was partial, or should the whole report be withheld until a complete scan can run, and state which choice avoids a false sense that everything's fine. 5. One edge case specific to this exact workflow: a link that 404s only for logged-out visitors because it points to a members-only page. Decide whether the crawler should authenticate as a test user to avoid a wave of false positives on every gated page. Replace the workflow description and available tools with your own.