diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yml b/.github/workflows/build.yml
index 7844783b..62f53e26 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yml
@@ -13,8 +13,18 @@ jobs:
           bundler-cache: true
       - run: bundle exec rubocop
 
-  test:
+  verify-links:
     needs: [lint]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: ruby/setup-ruby@v1
+        with:
+          ruby-version: "3.3"
+      - run: bin/verify-links
+
+  test:
+    needs: [verify-links]
     strategy:
       matrix:
         ruby: ["3.2", "3.3"]
diff --git a/bin/crawl-links b/bin/crawl-links
deleted file mode 100755
index fbf70b4c..00000000
--- a/bin/crawl-links
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env ruby
-# frozen_string_literal: true
-
-require "open3"
-require "net/http"
-require "logger"
-
-logger = Logger.new($stdout)
-
-search_command = "grep -R @see ./lib"
-output, = Open3.capture3(search_command)
-matches = output.split("\n")
-
-failed = false
-
-threads = matches.map do |line|
-  Thread.new do
-    url = line.match(/http.*/)[0]
-    response = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI(url))
-    case response
-    when Net::HTTPSuccess
-      logger.info("✅ #{response.code} #{url}")
-    when Net::HTTPFound
-      logger.warn("👀 #{response.code} #{url}")
-    else
-      failed = true
-      logger.error("❌ #{response.code} #{url}")
-    end
-  end
-end
-threads.each(&:join)
-
-if failed
-  logger.warn("Please fix broken documentation links.")
-  exit 1
-end
diff --git a/bin/verify-links b/bin/verify-links
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..4d63f277
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/verify-links
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env ruby
+# frozen_string_literal: true
+
+require "open3"
+require "net/http"
+require "logger"
+
+logger = Logger.new($stdout)
+
+# Search for URLs in the README file
+search_command = "grep -Eo 'https?://[^ ]+' README"
+output, = Open3.capture3(search_command)
+readme_matches = output.split("\n")
+
+# Search for URLs in comments in other files
+search_command = "grep -EoR '#.*https?://[^ ]+' lib"
+output, = Open3.capture3(search_command)
+lib_matches = output.split("\n")
+
+# Extract only the URLs
+matches = (readme_matches + lib_matches).map do |line|
+  line.match(%r{https?://[^ )>,\"]+})[0]
+end
+
+matches.uniq!
+
+failed = false
+
+threads = matches.map do |url|
+  Thread.new do
+    response = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI(url))
+    case response
+    when Net::HTTPSuccess
+      logger.info("✅ #{response.code} #{url}")
+    when Net::HTTPFound, Net::HTTPMovedPermanently
+      logger.warn("👀 #{response.code} #{url}")
+    else
+      failed = true
+      logger.error("❌ #{response.code} #{url}")
+    end
+  rescue URI::InvalidURIError => e
+    logger.error("❌ Invalid URL #{url}: #{e.message}")
+  end
+end
+threads.each(&:join)
+
+if failed
+  logger.warn("Please fix broken documentation links.")
+  exit 1
+end