diff --git a/requirements/scrapy.txt b/requirements/scrapy.txt
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index 0000000000..0b564e9515
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements/scrapy.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+Scrapy==1.2.0
+cryptography==1.5.2
+parsel==1.0.3
+pyOpenSSL==16.2.0
+w3lib==1.15.0
+PyDispatcher==2.0.5
+queuelib==1.4.2
+cffi==1.8.3
+pycparser==2.16
diff --git a/requirements/twisted.txt b/requirements/twisted.txt
index cba1b324d1..662aa38cc2 100644
--- a/requirements/twisted.txt
+++ b/requirements/twisted.txt
@@ -2,3 +2,6 @@ Twisted==16.4.1
 zope.interface==4.3.2
 service-identity==16.0.0
 attrs==16.2.0
+
+# Needed for documentation links test
+-r scrapy.txt
diff --git a/tools/documentation_crawler/__init__.py b/tools/documentation_crawler/__init__.py
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index 0000000000..e69de29bb2
diff --git a/tools/documentation_crawler/documentation_crawler/__init__.py b/tools/documentation_crawler/documentation_crawler/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e69de29bb2
diff --git a/tools/documentation_crawler/documentation_crawler/commands/__init__.py b/tools/documentation_crawler/documentation_crawler/commands/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e69de29bb2
diff --git a/tools/documentation_crawler/documentation_crawler/commands/crawl_with_status.py b/tools/documentation_crawler/documentation_crawler/commands/crawl_with_status.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..99227f9e38
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+++ b/tools/documentation_crawler/documentation_crawler/commands/crawl_with_status.py
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+from scrapy.commands.crawl import Command
+from scrapy.exceptions import UsageError
+from typing import List, Any
+
+
+class StatusCommand(Command):
+    def run(self, args, opts):
+        # type: (List[str], Any) -> None
+        if len(args) < 1:
+            raise UsageError()
+        elif len(args) > 1:
+            raise UsageError(
+                "running 'scrapy crawl' with more than one spider is no longer supported")
+        spname = args[0]
+
+        crawler = self.crawler_process.create_crawler(spname)
+        self.crawler_process.crawl(crawler)
+        self.crawler_process.start()
+        # Get exceptions quantity from crawler stat data
+        stats = crawler.stats.get_stats()
+        if stats.get('spider_exceptions/Exception') or stats.get('downloader/exception_count'):
+            # Return non-zero exit code if exceptions are contained
+            self.exitcode = 1
diff --git a/tools/documentation_crawler/documentation_crawler/settings.py b/tools/documentation_crawler/documentation_crawler/settings.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c396a6d1ef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/documentation_crawler/documentation_crawler/settings.py
@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+# Scrapy settings for documentation_crawler project
+#
+# For simplicity, this file contains only settings considered important or
+# commonly used. You can find more settings consulting the documentation:
+#
+#     http://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html
+#     http://scrapy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html
+#     http://scrapy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html
+
+BOT_NAME = 'documentation_crawler'
+
+SPIDER_MODULES = ['documentation_crawler.spiders']
+NEWSPIDER_MODULE = 'documentation_crawler.spiders'
+COMMANDS_MODULE = 'documentation_crawler.commands'
+LOG_LEVEL = 'ERROR'
+
+
+# Crawl responsibly by identifying yourself (and your website) on the user-agent
+USER_AGENT = 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/54.0.2840.59 Safari/537.36'
+
+# Obey robots.txt rules
+ROBOTSTXT_OBEY = False
+
+# Configure maximum concurrent requests performed by Scrapy (default: 16)
+#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS = 32
+
+# Configure a delay for requests for the same website (default: 0)
+# See http://scrapy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html#download-delay
+# See also autothrottle settings and docs
+#DOWNLOAD_DELAY = 3
+# The download delay setting will honor only one of:
+#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_DOMAIN = 16
+#CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_IP = 16
+
+# Disable cookies (enabled by default)
+#COOKIES_ENABLED = False
+
+# Disable Telnet Console (enabled by default)
+#TELNETCONSOLE_ENABLED = False
+
+# Override the default request headers:
+#DEFAULT_REQUEST_HEADERS = {
+#   'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',
+#   'Accept-Language': 'en',
+#}
+
+# Enable or disable spider middlewares
+# See http://scrapy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/topics/spider-middleware.html
+#SPIDER_MIDDLEWARES = {
+#    'documentation_crawler.middlewares.MyCustomSpiderMiddleware': 543,
+#}
+
+# Enable or disable downloader middlewares
+# See http://scrapy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html
+#DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = {
+#    'documentation_crawler.middlewares.MyCustomDownloaderMiddleware': 543,
+#}
+
+# Enable or disable extensions
+# See http://scrapy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/topics/extensions.html
+#EXTENSIONS = {
+#    'scrapy.extensions.telnet.TelnetConsole': None,
+#}
+
+# Configure item pipelines
+# See http://scrapy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/topics/item-pipeline.html
+#ITEM_PIPELINES = {
+#    'documentation_crawler.pipelines.SomePipeline': 300,
+#}
+
+# Enable and configure the AutoThrottle extension (disabled by default)
+# See http://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/autothrottle.html
+#AUTOTHROTTLE_ENABLED = True
+# The initial download delay
+#AUTOTHROTTLE_START_DELAY = 5
+# The maximum download delay to be set in case of high latencies
+#AUTOTHROTTLE_MAX_DELAY = 60
+# The average number of requests Scrapy should be sending in parallel to
+# each remote server
+#AUTOTHROTTLE_TARGET_CONCURRENCY = 1.0
+# Enable showing throttling stats for every response received:
+#AUTOTHROTTLE_DEBUG = False
+
+# Enable and configure HTTP caching (disabled by default)
+# See http://scrapy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html#httpcache-middleware-settings
+#HTTPCACHE_ENABLED = True
+#HTTPCACHE_EXPIRATION_SECS = 0
+#HTTPCACHE_DIR = 'httpcache'
+#HTTPCACHE_IGNORE_HTTP_CODES = []
+#HTTPCACHE_STORAGE = 'scrapy.extensions.httpcache.FilesystemCacheStorage'
diff --git a/tools/documentation_crawler/documentation_crawler/spiders/__init__.py b/tools/documentation_crawler/documentation_crawler/spiders/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ebd689ac51
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/documentation_crawler/documentation_crawler/spiders/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# This package will contain the spiders of your Scrapy project
+#
+# Please refer to the documentation for information on how to create and manage
+# your spiders.
diff --git a/tools/documentation_crawler/documentation_crawler/spiders/check_documentation.py b/tools/documentation_crawler/documentation_crawler/spiders/check_documentation.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..6b60c2bbe3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/documentation_crawler/documentation_crawler/spiders/check_documentation.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+from __future__ import print_function
+import os
+import re
+import scrapy
+import pathlib2
+from scrapy import Request
+from scrapy.linkextractors import IGNORED_EXTENSIONS
+from scrapy.linkextractors.lxmlhtml import LxmlLinkExtractor
+from scrapy.utils.url import url_has_any_extension
+from typing import Any, Callable, Generator, List, Optional
+
+
+def get_start_url():
+    # type: () -> List[str]
+    # Get index html file as start url and convert it to file uri
+    dir_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
+    start_file = os.path.join(dir_path, os.path.join(*[os.pardir] * 4),
+                              "docs/_build/html/index.html")
+    return [
+        pathlib2.Path(os.path.abspath(start_file)).as_uri()
+    ]
+
+
+class DocumentationSpider(scrapy.Spider):
+    name = "documentation_crawler"
+    deny_domains = ['localhost:9991']  # Exclude domain address.
+    start_urls = get_start_url()
+    file_extensions = ['.' + ext for ext in IGNORED_EXTENSIONS]
+
+    def _has_extension(self, url):
+        # type: (str) -> bool
+        return url_has_any_extension(url, self.file_extensions)
+
+    def check_existing(self, response):
+        # type: (Any) -> None
+        self.log(response)
+
+    def check_permalink(self, response):
+        # type: (Any) -> None
+        self.log(response)
+        xpath_template = "//*[@id='{permalink}' or @name='{permalink}']"
+        m = re.match(r".+\#(?P<permalink>.*)$", response.request.url)  # Get anchor value.
+        if not m:
+            return
+        permalink = m.group('permalink')
+        # Check permalink existing on response page.
+        if not response.selector.xpath(xpath_template.format(permalink=permalink)):
+            raise Exception(
+                "Permalink #{} is not found on page {}".format(permalink, response.request.url))
+
+    def parse(self, response):
+        # type: (Any) -> Generator[Request, None, None]
+        self.log(response)
+        for link in LxmlLinkExtractor(deny_domains=self.deny_domains, deny_extensions=[],
+                                      deny='\_sources\/.*\.txt',
+                                      canonicalize=False).extract_links(response):
+            callback = self.parse  # type: Any
+            dont_filter = False
+            method = 'GET'
+            if link.url.startswith('http') or self._has_extension(link.url):
+                callback = self.check_existing
+                method = 'HEAD'
+            elif '#' in link.url:
+                dont_filter = True
+                callback = self.check_permalink
+            yield Request(link.url, method=method, callback=callback, dont_filter=dont_filter,
+                          errback=self.error_callback)
+
+    def retry_request_with_get(self, request):
+        # type: (Request) -> Generator[Request, None, None]
+        request.method = 'GET'
+        request.dont_filter = True
+        yield request
+
+    def error_callback(self, failure):
+        # type: (Any) -> Optional[Generator[Any, None, None]]
+        if hasattr(failure.value, 'response'):
+            response = failure.value.response
+            if response.status == 405 and response.request.method == 'HEAD':
+                # Method 'HEAD' not allowed, repeat request with 'GET'
+                return self.retry_request_with_get(response.request)
+            raise Exception(failure.value.response)
+        else:
+            raise Exception(failure.value)
diff --git a/tools/documentation_crawler/scrapy.cfg b/tools/documentation_crawler/scrapy.cfg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0eec1a808f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/documentation_crawler/scrapy.cfg
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+
+[settings]
+default = documentation_crawler.settings
+
+[deploy]
+project = documentation_crawler