Bulk URL Status Checker & Redirect Tracer — HTTP Status Codes, Broken Links & Redirect Chains at Scale

Bulk-check thousands of URLs for HTTP status codes, full redirect chains, broken links, response times, and content type — all in one run. No browser, no login, no API key required. The go-to tool for SEO audits, site migrations, link monitoring, and QA pipelines.

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🏆 Why choose this Bulk URL Status Checker?

Check thousands of URLs per run · full hop-by-hop redirect chains · per-hop latency · 14 output fields per URL · 29 user agent options including Googlebot, GPTBot, and SEMrush · export to JSON / CSV / Excel.

The most data-rich bulk HTTP status checker on Apify — built for SEO professionals, developers, and QA teams who need more than just a status code.

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✨ Key features

• 🔗 Full redirect chain tracing — records every hop with URL, status code, latency, and complete response headers. Not just the final destination — every intermediate step.
• 🚦 Complete HTTP status detection — captures 200 OK, 301/302 redirects, 403 Forbidden, 404 Not Found, 410 Gone, 429 Too Many Requests, 500 Server Error, and network errors (DNS failures, timeouts).
• 🔴 Broken link detection — is_broken flag instantly identifies 4xx, 5xx, and network failures. Filter your entire dataset in one click.
• ⏱️ Per-hop latency measurement — see exactly which redirect hop is slow, not just the total round-trip time. Millisecond precision.
• 🤖 29 user agent options — check how Chrome, Googlebot, GPTBot, Bingbot, AhrefsBot, SEMrushBot, and 23 more browsers and crawlers see your URLs.
• 📍 Check location reporting — shows which server location (e.g. Washington DC, Frankfurt, Tokyo) performed the check.
• 📋 Content type & length — know what the final response returns, not just whether it responded.
• ⚡ Concurrent batch processing — 3 batches of 100 URLs run in parallel. Fast even for large lists.
• 🔄 Automatic retries — transient failures are retried automatically. Failed URLs always get a result, never silently dropped.
• 📤 Export-ready — download every result as JSON, CSV, Excel, or JSONL from the Apify Dataset.

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🚀 Quick start (3 steps)

1. Add your URLs — paste them into the URLs to check field, one per line
2. Choose your user agent — leave as chrome for standard checks, or pick googlebot to see what Google sees
3. Click Start — results fill the dataset within seconds, ready to export as JSON / CSV / Excel

No API key. No login. No code to write.

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📥 Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
urls	string[]	—	Required. List of URLs to check. No hard limit.
userAgent	string	chrome	Browser or bot user agent — see full list below
timeout	integer	10000	Per-URL timeout in ms (1,000–60,000)
includeHeaders	boolean	true	Include full response headers for every hop

Example input — broken link audit

{
  "urls": [
    "https://example.com",
    "https://example.com/old-page",
    "https://example.com/contact"
  ],
  "userAgent": "chrome",
  "timeout": 10000,
  "includeHeaders": true
}

Example input — Googlebot redirect check

{
  "urls": [
    "https://oldsite.com/legacy-path",
    "https://oldsite.com/page-1",
    "https://oldsite.com/page-2"
  ],
  "userAgent": "googlebot",
  "timeout": 10000,
  "includeHeaders": true
}

Supported user agents

Desktop browsers

Key	Browser
chrome	Chrome 124 — Windows (default)
chrome_mac	Chrome 124 — macOS
firefox	Firefox 125 — Windows
safari	Safari 17.4 — macOS
edge	Edge 124 — Windows
opera	Opera 110 — Windows
brave	Brave (Chrome engine)

Mobile

Key	Device
mobile	iPhone Safari — iOS 17
android	Pixel 8 Chrome — Android
samsung	Samsung Browser — Android

Search engine bots

Key	Bot
googlebot	Googlebot Desktop
googlebot_mobile	Googlebot Mobile
bingbot	Bingbot
yandexbot	YandexBot
duckduckbot	DuckDuckBot
baidubot	Baiduspider
applebot	Applebot

Social media bots

Key	Platform
twitterbot	Twitter / X
facebookbot	Facebook
linkedinbot	LinkedIn
slackbot	Slack
whatsapp	WhatsApp
telegram	Telegram

AI bots

Key	Bot
gptbot	OpenAI GPTBot
claudebot	Anthropic ClaudeBot
perplexitybot	Perplexity AI

SEO tools

Key	Tool
ahrefsbot	Ahrefs
semrushbot	SEMrush
screaming	Screaming Frog

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📤 Output

One row per URL pushed to the Apify Dataset — 14 fields per result.

Field	Type	Description
input_url	string	Original URL submitted
final_url	string	Final URL after all redirects
final_status	integer	HTTP status code at the final destination
status_message	string	Status text — e.g. OK, Not Found, Too Many Requests
is_broken	boolean	true for 4xx, 5xx, and network errors
redirect_count	integer	Number of 3xx redirects followed
has_redirect	boolean	true if at least one redirect occurred
total_time_ms	integer	Total round-trip time in milliseconds
content_type	string	Content-Type of the final response
content_length	integer	Content-Length of the final response in bytes
check_location	object	Server location that performed the check — { iata, city }
chain	array	Every hop: url, status_code, status_text, latency_ms, headers
checked_at	string	ISO 8601 timestamp
error	string	Error message if request failed, otherwise null

Example — successful redirect (GitHub HTTP → HTTPS)

{
  "input_url": "http://github.com",
  "final_url": "https://github.com/",
  "final_status": 200,
  "status_message": "OK",
  "is_broken": false,
  "redirect_count": 1,
  "has_redirect": true,
  "total_time_ms": 31,
  "content_type": "text/html",
  "content_length": null,
  "check_location": { "iata": "IAD", "city": "Washington DC" },
  "chain": [
    { "hop": 1, "url": "http://github.com/", "status_code": 301, "status_text": "Moved Permanently", "latency_ms": 21, "headers": { "location": "https://github.com/" } },
    { "hop": 2, "url": "https://github.com/", "status_code": 200, "status_text": "OK", "latency_ms": 10, "headers": {} }
  ],
  "checked_at": "2026-09-25T12:26:15.931Z",
  "error": null
}

Example — broken link (404)

{
  "input_url": "https://example.com/old-page",
  "final_url": "https://example.com/old-page",
  "final_status": 404,
  "status_message": "Not Found",
  "is_broken": true,
  "redirect_count": 0,
  "has_redirect": false,
  "total_time_ms": 210,
  "content_type": "text/html",
  "content_length": 1256,
  "check_location": { "iata": "LHR", "city": "London" },
  "chain": [],
  "checked_at": "2026-09-25T12:26:16.000Z",
  "error": null
}

Example — network error

{
  "input_url": "https://this-domain-does-not-exist.io/page",
  "final_url": null,
  "final_status": 0,
  "status_message": "Network Error",
  "is_broken": true,
  "redirect_count": 0,
  "has_redirect": false,
  "total_time_ms": null,
  "content_type": null,
  "content_length": null,
  "check_location": null,
  "chain": [],
  "checked_at": "2026-09-25T12:26:17.000Z",
  "error": "getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND this-domain-does-not-exist.io"
}

HTTP status code reference

Code	Message	is_broken	Meaning
200	OK	❌	Page loaded successfully
301	Moved Permanently	❌	Permanent redirect (followed)
302	Found	❌	Temporary redirect (followed)
308	Permanent Redirect	❌	Permanent redirect (followed)
401	Unauthorized	✅	Authentication required
403	Forbidden	✅	Access denied
404	Not Found	✅	Page does not exist
410	Gone	✅	Page permanently removed
429	Too Many Requests	✅	Rate limited by target server
500	Internal Server Error	✅	Server-side error
503	Service Unavailable	✅	Server temporarily down
0	Network Error	✅	DNS failure, timeout, connection refused

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💡 Use cases

SEO broken-link audits Export your full site URL list, run the actor, filter is_broken = true. Prioritize fixing 404s and 5xx errors by page importance to protect crawl budget and search rankings.

Redirect chain optimization Use chain[] to spot multi-hop redirect chains (redirect_count > 1) and collapse them into single direct redirects — saving latency and preserving link equity.

Site migration validation Confirm every old URL returns 301/308 and that final_url points to the correct new destination. Catch missing redirects before they cost you rankings.

Googlebot vs user comparison Run the same URL list twice — once with userAgent: googlebot and once with userAgent: chrome — to detect cloaking, soft 404s, or bot-specific behavior.

AI bot access auditing Use gptbot, claudebot, or perplexitybot to verify your robots.txt and server rules are correctly blocking or allowing AI crawlers.

Affiliate & backlink link health checks Verify that inbound affiliate links and earned backlinks still resolve to 200 OK. A 404 on a linked page means lost link equity and lost commissions.

API & webhook URL validation Run all endpoint URLs through the actor before deploying an integration. Confirm they return the expected 2xx rather than a surprise 4xx or 5xx.

Uptime & QA monitoring Schedule recurring runs via the Apify Scheduler and fire webhooks on completion to alert on newly broken links. Drop it into CI/CD as a link-health gate.

Content migration QA After a CMS migration, batch-check every URL in the old sitemap to confirm redirects are in place and no pages returned 404.

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👥 Who uses this actor

• SEO teams & auditors — identify 404s, redirect chains, and crawl budget leaks across large sites
• Web developers & QA engineers — validate links after migrations, CMS changes, or deployments
• Growth & affiliate marketers — monitor that earned backlinks and affiliate URLs resolve correctly
• Site-migration engineers — verify redirect maps end-to-end before and after cutover
• Content managers — keep internal and external link health clean across articles
• Security researchers — inspect redirect chains and response headers for misconfigurations

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⏰ Scheduling & integration

• Schedule recurring runs (daily, weekly, or any cron interval) from the Apify Console
• API-first — start runs and pull results programmatically via the Apify API; filter broken URLs with GET /v2/datasets/{id}/items?filter=is_broken%3Dtrue
• Webhooks — trigger Slack, email, or your own endpoint on run completion
• Pipeline it — chain with a Sitemap Crawler actor for a fully automated whole-site health check

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❓ Frequently asked questions

Do I need an API key or login? No. Just paste your URLs and click Start.

How many URLs can I check per run? No hard limit. The actor batches URLs internally and processes them concurrently. Check an entire sitemap in a single run.

Does it follow redirects? Yes — up to 15 hops per URL. Every intermediate URL, status code, and latency is recorded in chain[].

How do I find all broken links? Filter the dataset by is_broken = true. This covers 4xx, 5xx, and network errors in one step.

How do I check HTTP (non-HTTPS) URLs? Both HTTP and HTTPS are fully supported.

Can I see how Googlebot crawls my URLs? Yes — set userAgent: googlebot or googlebot_mobile. You can also check with bingbot, ahrefsbot, semrushbot, gptbot, and 24 more user agents.

What does check_location mean? It shows which server location performed the check — for example { "iata": "IAD", "city": "Washington DC" }. Useful for detecting geo-based redirects or location-specific responses.

How do I export to CSV? Click Export on the dataset page and choose CSV. The chain[] array is serialized as JSON within the CSV cell; all scalar fields are separate columns.

Can I use it for scheduled link monitoring? Yes. Use the Apify Scheduler to trigger daily or weekly runs and connect webhooks or the API to alert when new broken links appear.

Is it legal? The actor sends standard HTTP requests to URLs you supply — the same as a browser or any link checker. You are responsible for checking only URLs you are authorized to access and for complying with applicable laws and the target sites' terms of service.

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⚖️ Legal

This actor sends standard HTTP GET requests to URLs you provide and reports the returned status metadata. No authentication bypass, no content harvesting, no scraping. You are responsible for checking only URLs you are authorized to access and for complying with target websites' terms of service, robots directives, and all applicable laws and regulations in your jurisdiction.