# Install markdown-link-check with npm

checks the all of the hyperlinks in a markdown text to determine if they are alive or dead. Version 3.14.2 via npm; verified 2025-11-19. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#markdown-link-check.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install npm:markdown-link-check
```

Additional install commands:

### Portable and language managers

- npm (100%):

```sh
npm install -g markdown-link-check
```

  Evidence: local npm package metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** npm:markdown-link-check
- **Package manager:** npm
- **Package manager page:** <https://www.npmjs.com/package/markdown-link-check>
- **Version:** 3.14.2
- **Source summary:** checks the all of the hyperlinks in a markdown text to determine if they are alive or dead
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/tcort/markdown-link-check#readme>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/tcort/markdown-link-check>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://github.com/tcort/markdown-link-check#readme>
- **License:** ISC
- **Issue tracker:** <https://github.com/tcort/markdown-link-check/issues>
- **Published:** 2025-11-19T16:26:22.209Z
- **Last updated:** 2025-11-19T16:26:22.209Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00

## Executables

- markdown-link-check (cli)
- markdown-link-check (alias)

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-04
- Package-manager version: 3.14.2
- Package-manager updated: 2025-11-19
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/tcort/markdown-link-check
- notice: The package-manager record has not changed recently.
- info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.

## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for markdown-link-check. Package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.


## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** npm registry
- **Dist Tags:** Latest: 3.14.2
- **Version Count:** 70
- **Maintainers:** tcort
- **Author:** Thomas Cort
- **File Count:** 0
- **Created At:** 2016-01-16T02:44:05.987Z
- **Latest Published At:** 2025-11-19T16:26:22.209Z
- **Modified At:** 2025-11-19T16:26:22.209Z

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - markdown-link-check: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ma/markdown-link-check/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Related links

- [Text processing packages](https://pkg.so/text-processing-tools/) - Matched curated package taxonomy and local package facts.
- [markdown-spellcheck](https://pkg.so/npm/markdown-spellcheck/) - Both packages work with overlapping file formats or content types. Shared terms: check, checks, cli, developer, developer-tools.
- [markdown-toc](https://pkg.so/npm/markdown-toc/) - Both packages work with overlapping file formats or content types. Shared terms: cli, developer, developer-tools, documentation, link.
- [markdown-it](https://pkg.so/npm/markdown-it/) - Both packages work with overlapping file formats or content types. Shared terms: cli, developer, developer-tools, documentation, markdown.

## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- package-page enrichment
- package version freshness
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph