Redirect Checker

Redirect Checker is an open-source tool designed to analyze and verify URL redirects. It helps webmasters, SEO professionals, and developers understand redirect chains, identify issues, and optimize website performance.

Features

• Analyze single or multiple URL redirects
• Detailed redirect chain visualization
• Support for various redirect types (301, 302, 303, 307, 308, meta refresh, JavaScript)
• Custom user-agent selection
• SEO impact assessment
• Redirect loop detection
• HTTP header analysis (Status Code, X-Robots-Tag, Rel Canonical)
• Optionally strip tracking parameters from the final URL

Installation

To set up the Redirect Checker project locally, follow these steps:

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/seadfeng/redirect-checker.git
cd redirect-checker

2. Install dependencies:

npm install
# or
yarn install
# or
pnpm install

Usage Guide

Running the Development Server

To start the development server, run one of the following commands:

npm run dev
# or
# yarn dev
or
# pnpm dev
# or
bun dev

Open http://localhost:3000 in your browser to see the result.

How to Use

1. Enter the URL you want to check in the input field.
2. (Optional) Select a user-agent from the dropdown menu.
3. Click the "Check" button.
4. Review the results, including the redirect chain, status codes, and final destination.

Technologies Used

• Next.js
• TypeScript
• Tailwind CSS
• ESLint
• PostCSS

Free Redirect Checker API

User-Agent: insomnia/9.2.0

curl --request POST \
  --url https://www.redirectchecker.org/api/redirectcheck \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --header 'User-Agent: insomnia/9.2.0' \
  --data '{ 
	"url": "https://proxysites.ai"
}'

Output JSON

[
	{
		"url": "https://proxysites.ai",
		"host": "proxysites.ai",
		"status": 301,
		"statusText": "Moved Permanently",
		"duration": "0.006 s",
		"metaRefresh": false,
		"location": "https://www.proxysites.ai/"
	},
	{
		"url": "https://www.proxysites.ai/",
		"host": "www.proxysites.ai",
		"status": 200,
		"statusText": "OK",
		"duration": "3.179 s",
		"metaRefresh": false,
		"location": null
	}
]

User-Agent: iPhone

curl --request POST \
  --url https://www.redirectchecker.org/api/redirectcheck \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --header 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 16_6 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.6 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1' \
  --data '{ 
	"url": "https://www.facebook.com"
}'

Output JSON

[
	{
		"url": "https://facebook.com/",
		"host": "facebook.com",
		"status": 301,
		"statusText": "Moved Permanently",
		"duration": "0.289 s",
		"metaRefresh": false,
		"location": "https://m.facebook.com/?wtsid=rdr_03YkIjUs18ziSEa5N"
	},
	{
		"url": "https://m.facebook.com/?wtsid=rdr_03YkIjUs18ziSEa5N",
		"host": "m.facebook.com",
		"status": 200,
		"statusText": "OK",
		"duration": "0.207 s",
		"metaRefresh": false,
		"location": null
	}
]

Meta Refresh

curl --request POST \
  --url https://www.redirectchecker.org/api/redirectcheck \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --header 'User-Agent: insomnia/9.2.0' \
  --data '{ 
	"url": "https://www.redirectchecker.org/meta-redirect.html"
}'

[
	{
		"url": "https://www.redirectchecker.org/meta-redirect.html",
		"host": "www.redirectchecker.org",
		"status": 200,
		"statusText": "OK",
		"duration": "0.305 s",
		"metaRefresh": true,
		"location": "https://www.redirectchecker.org/"
	},
	{
		"url": "https://www.redirectchecker.org/",
		"host": "www.redirectchecker.org",
		"status": 200,
		"statusText": "OK",
		"duration": "0.784 s",
		"metaRefresh": false,
		"location": null
	}
]

Deploy to Cloudflare Pages

Local Deploy

Simple Deployment

# install wrangler
npm install -g wrangler

# Cloudflare Login 
wrangler login

# Deploy to Cloudflare Pages
npm run deploy

Deploy by GitHub Actions

For detailed instructions, see this guide

Contributing

We welcome contributions to the Redirect Checker project. Please feel free to submit issues, feature requests, or pull requests.

License

MIT License

About

Redirect Checker is maintained by seadfeng. For more information, visit the project homepage.

Tags

• redirect-urls
• redirect-page
• redirect-checker