# 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.

## 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
- **Source archive:** <https://registry.npmjs.org/markdown-link-check/-/markdown-link-check-3.14.2.tgz>
- **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:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00

## Executables

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

## Dependencies

- async
- chalk
- commander
- link-check
- markdown-link-extractor
- needle
- progress
- proxy-agent
- xmlbuilder2

## Build dependencies

- @eslint/js
- eslint
- expect.js
- express
- globals
- mocha

## Install behavior

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

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-08
- 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. Nucleus 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:** 69
- **Maintainers:** tcort
- **Author:** Thomas Cort
- **Publisher:** tcort
- **Integrity:** sha512-DPJ+itd3D5fcfXD5s1i53lugH0Z/h80kkQxlYCBh8tFwEZGhyVgDcLl0rnKlWssAVDAmSmcbePpHpMEY+JcMMQ==
- **Shasum:** 5683dfb039d8c658117a3950f4faac9c6774e0f8
- **Unpacked Size:** 42,248
- **File Count:** 0
- **Created At:** 2016-01-16T02:44:05.987Z
- **Latest Published At:** 2025-11-19T16:26:22.209Z
- **Modified At:** 2025-11-19T16:26:22.394Z

## 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://www.automicvault.com/pkg/text-processing-tools/) - Matched curated package taxonomy and local package facts.
- [markdown-spellcheck](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/markdown-spellcheck/) - Both packages work with overlapping file formats or content types. Shared terms: async, chalk, check, checks, commander.
- [linkinator](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/linkinator/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: all, chalk, checker, dead, hyperlink.
- [markdown-docx](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/markdown-docx/) - Both packages work with overlapping file formats or content types. Shared terms: commander, markdown.

## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- package-page enrichment
- package version freshness
- package relationship graph
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph