Run it in your browser

Runs fully in your browser, files never leave your device.

1. Input mode

Folder of articles (Markdown or HTML) Single export file (CSV or JSON)

Choose the articles folder

Drag and drop is not available for whole folders in most browsers, so use this picker for folder mode.

Or pick the article files one by one

Drag and drop Markdown or HTML files onto this box, or use the picker. If the folder picker is filled in, it takes priority.

Stale threshold (days)

Reference date for staleness (optional)

Audit report

What it does

Stale article detection using the updated date or the file modification time, with a configurable threshold

Duplicate and near-duplicate titles found by normalised token overlap

Broken internal links that point at slugs which do not exist in the set, while external URLs are ignored

Orphan articles with zero inbound internal links, with drafts and unpublished articles reported separately

Accepts a folder of Markdown or HTML files, or a CSV or JSON export in a Zendesk Guide style shape

Install and usage

Requires Node.js 20 or later. There are no dependencies to install.

git clone https://github.com/aamirtechs/helpcenter-audit.git
cd helpcenter-audit
node src/cli.js examples/articles --stale-days 365 --now 2026-01-15 --out-dir out

The run writes findings.csv and report.md to the output directory. The --now flag pins the reference date so staleness runs are reproducible. External link liveness checking is out of scope: the tool is fully offline.