HTTP Status Code Checker — Bulk URLs & Redirect Chains

⭐ Bookmark this actor so bulk HTTP status checks are one click away whenever you run a migration, audit a sitemap, or vet a list of links.

Check HTTP status codes and full redirect chains for any list of URLs — in bulk. For every URL you get the final status, each redirect hop (with its status and Location), response time, content-type and server header. It reads response headers only (the body is never downloaded), so it's fast, cheap, and easy on the targets.

What it does

For each URL in your list, the actor returns:

• Final HTTP status (e.g. 200, 301, 404, 500)
• ok flag (true for 2xx/3xx)
• Full redirect chain — every hop: url, status, Location
• Final URL after all redirects
• Response time in milliseconds
• content-type, server, content-length
• error message when a URL fails (DNS, timeout, SSL…)

Input

Field	Type	Description
urls	array	List of URLs to check (missing scheme defaults to https://)
url	string	Convenience field for a single URL (merged with urls)
method	enum	GET (most accurate) or HEAD (lighter; auto-falls back to GET if rejected)
followRedirects	boolean	Follow 3xx and report the chain (default true)
timeoutSecs	integer	Per-URL timeout, 1–60 (default 15)
concurrency	integer	Parallel checks, 1–50 (default 25)

Example input

{
  "urls": [
    "https://google.com",
    "http://github.com",
    "https://apify.com/old-page"
  ]
}

Output

One record per URL:

{
  "input_url": "http://github.com",
  "final_url": "https://github.com/",
  "final_status": 200,
  "ok": true,
  "redirected": true,
  "redirect_count": 1,
  "redirect_chain": [
    { "url": "http://github.com", "status": 301, "location": "https://github.com/" },
    { "url": "https://github.com/", "status": 200, "location": null }
  ],
  "content_type": "text/html; charset=utf-8",
  "server": "GitHub.com",
  "response_time_ms": 142,
  "error": null
}

Use cases

• SEO migrations — verify every old URL 301-redirects to the right new URL (no chains, no 404s).
• Link audits — find broken links and unexpected redirects across a sitemap or backlink list.
• Redirect-chain cleanup — spot multi-hop chains that waste crawl budget and slow users down.
• Uptime spot-checks — batch-confirm a set of endpoints returns 200.

Pricing

Pay-per-event, no subscription: $0.001 per URL checked ($1 per 1,000 URLs). Up to 1,000 URLs per run — split larger lists across runs.

Next step: is your site ready for AI crawlers?

Status codes are table stakes. To see whether ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity can actually read and cite your pages, run GEO Site Audit — it scores robots.txt, llms.txt, sitemap, Schema.org, meta tags and content extractability for AI readiness.

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Built by dltik. Pure HTTP, headers-only — fast and cheap.