{"id":18879986,"date":"2026-04-14T12:46:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T12:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/blc-spider-not-visiting-external-links\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T12:46:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T12:46:36","slug":"blc-spider-not-visiting-external-links","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/blc-spider-not-visiting-external-links\/","title":{"rendered":"BLC Spider not visiting external links"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hi,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve installed Broken Link Checker on 3 websites and activated the cloud version several days ago. The spider crawled the websites and was abled to count the number of links. But it doesn&#8217;t found any broken links while, on one website, I voluntary placed 2 external broken links. And on another website, I have more than 70K links so there are inevitably broken links.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I checked the server logs of a website which has at least one link in one of these 3 websites and found no line with the WPMU DEV Broken Link Checker\u00a0Spider user agent nor a BLC IP address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I read the entire documentation of the plugin and found nothing about when the spider begins testing external links after the first scan or something else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is there a bug with the spider at the moment?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-18879986","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18879986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18879986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18879986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}