diff --git a/.github/workflows/check-frontend-urls.yml b/.github/workflows/check-frontend-urls.yml
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+name: Check Refinebio Frontend Urls
+
+# Controls when the action will run. Triggers the workflow on push or pull request
+# events but only for the master branch
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [ master ]
+
+# A workflow run is made up of one or more jobs that can run sequentially or in parallel
+jobs:
+  # This workflow contains a single job called "check-frontend-urls"
+  check-frontend-urls:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    container:
+      image: rocker/tidyverse:4.0.2
+
+    # Steps represent a sequence of tasks that will be executed as part of the job
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: Rscript -e "install.packages(c('optparse', 'jsonlite'))"
+
+      - name: Run Script to check URLs
+        id: get_missing_urls
+        run: |
+          links=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AlexsLemonade/refinebio-frontend/davidsmejia/906-examples-links/src/common/examples-links.json
+          results=$(Rscript "scripts/check-frontend-urls.R" --links $links)
+          echo "::set-output name=missing_urls::$results"
+
+      # Fail if any number besides 0 is returned
+      - name: Check if any URLs were missing
+        if: ${{ steps.get_missing_urls.outputs.missing_urls != 'OK' }}
+        run: |
+          echo "Please verify that the following file(s) exist:"
+          echo ${{ steps.get_missing_urls.outputs.missing_urls }}
+          exit 1
diff --git a/scripts/check-frontend-urls.R b/scripts/check-frontend-urls.R
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+#!/usr/bin/env Rscript
+#
+# Check Refinebio-Frontend urls and return anything missing that was expected or NULL
+
+library(optparse)
+library(jsonlite)
+
+option_list <- list(
+  make_option(
+    opt_str = c("-l", "--links"), type = "character",
+    default = NULL,
+    help = "JSON array that will be interpreted as the expected urls.",
+    metavar = ".json"
+  )
+)
+
+# Parse options
+opt <- parse_args(OptionParser(option_list = option_list))
+
+expected_urls <- fromJSON(txt=opt$links)
+
+# urls -> relatative file paths
+expected_files <- stringr::word(expected_urls, 2, sep = '/refinebio-examples/')
+expected_id_paths <- stringr::str_subset(expected_files, '#')
+# remove anchors
+expected_files <- unique(stringr::word(expected_files, 1, sep = '#'))
+
+# get a list of all html files in the project
+existing_files <- list.files(pattern = 'html$', recursive = TRUE)
+
+# get anything thats not in the project
+missing_files <- expected_files[!expected_files %in% existing_files]
+
+# check for missing ids after we know the file isnt missing
+# if a file and id is missing it will first complain that the file is missing
+if (any(missing_files)) {
+  expected_id_paths <- expected_id_paths[!grepl(paste(missing_files, collapse="|"), expected_id_paths)]
+}
+# find missing ids
+missing_ids = c()
+
+expected_id_parts_list <- strsplit(expected_id_paths, "#")
+for (expected_id_parts in expected_id_parts_list) {
+  expected_file <- expected_id_parts[1]
+  expected_id <- expected_id_parts[2]
+  expected_id_lines <- readr::read_lines(expected_file)
+
+  # check if the id="{expected_id}" exists
+  found <- any(stringr::str_detect(expected_id_lines, paste0('id="', expected_id, '"')))
+
+  # add it to missing if not found
+  if (!found) {
+    missing_ids <- c(missing_ids, paste0(expected_id_parts, collapse = "#"))
+  }
+}
+
+
+# group the missing things
+missing <- c(missing_files, missing_ids)
+
+# exit with the list or "OK" if nothing missing
+if(length(missing) == 0) {
+  cat('OK')
+} else {
+  cat(paste(missing, collapse = "\n"))
+}