Meta Catalog Feed Preflight

Before uploading or refreshing catalog data, compare a public product feed with sampled landing-page signals.

What it checks

• MVP required field presence: id, title, description, availability, condition, price, link, image_link
• Identifier group: at least one of brand, mpn, or gtin
• Duplicate product IDs
• Price, availability, and condition parse signals
• Product link reachability
• Image link reachability and content type
• Static landing-page price and availability signals

Outputs

• Dataset rows: one row per finding
• REPORT.json: full structured report and evidence pack
• REPORT.html: readable report
• REPORT.md: Markdown report

Billing

Pay-per-event billing is based only on sampled product pages that were fetched and compared. Invalid input and unreachable product pages are not charged as checked products.

Boundary

This Actor does not log in to Meta, upload products, call Commerce Manager, review ad policy, or promise catalog acceptance, ad delivery, or sales performance. It records public feed and static landing-page signals observed at run time. Checksmith Cats is not affiliated with Meta, Facebook, or Instagram.

Related tools

• Merchant Feed Preflight - Use when Google feed/page consistency is the target surface instead of Meta catalog shape.
• Scraped Dataset QA Preflight - Use when catalog rows come from a scraped dataset that needs generic QA first.
• Local Business NAP Consistency QA - Use when the dataset is local-business leads rather than product records.

Minimal input

{
  "feedUrl": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/Ge9l6paMLvccf5JHh/records/sample-feed.tsv?signature=1Q4n61aX2eAmArIHThDse",
  "sampleLimit": 3,
  "defaultCurrency": "USD"
}

API and scheduled use

Run the same validated input from Apify Console, the Actor API, CLI, schedules, or integrations. The run writes machine-readable findings to the default dataset and the complete report to the run storage.

Common input errors

Start with the published example and keep feedUrl, sampleLimit, defaultCurrency in the documented JSON shape. Malformed JSON, unsupported URL schemes, missing required values, and inputs above the stated limits are rejected rather than repaired silently.