# AI Search Readiness Checker (`epistemedeus/ai-search-readiness-checker`) Actor

Audit public website signals that affect machine readability: HTML retrieval, metadata, JSON-LD, robots.txt, sitemap, and llms.txt. Get a disclosed technical score, evidence URLs, concrete fixes, and explicit limits. No ranking or citation claims.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/epistemedeus/ai-search-readiness-checker.md
- **Developed by:** [Lucian Constantinescu](https://apify.com/epistemedeus) (community)
- **Categories:** AI, SEO tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $20.00 / 1,000 audited domains

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## AI Search Readiness Checker (Apify Actor)

Audit the public technical signals that make a website easier for search and AI
systems to retrieve and interpret. For each URL, the Actor returns:

- a disclosed 0-100 technical-coverage score and letter grade;
- metadata, robots, sitemap, and optional `llms.txt` checks;
- valid JSON-LD types and site-type-specific schema gaps;
- source URLs, concrete fixes, and explicit limits.

The score is not a search ranking, citation probability, or commercial-outcome
prediction. The Actor does not query ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, or Google AI
Overviews.

### Input

```json
{ "domains": ["samedaydesk.com"] }
```

or Apify-standard `startUrls`.

### Output (dataset, one row per domain)

```json
{
  "requestedUrl": "https://samedaydesk.com/",
  "finalUrl": "https://samedaydesk.com/",
  "technicalReadinessScore": 84,
  "grade": "B",
  "signals": {
    "schemaTypesPresent": ["Organization", "WebSite"]
  },
  "recommendations": ["Review the missing schema types supported by the page."],
  "auditedAt": "2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z"
}
```

### Monetization

Pay-per-event: charged once per successfully audited domain (`result`, default $0.02; set the real price in the Apify console).

Version 0.3 audits only public HTTP and HTTPS targets, blocks private and
reserved networks, follows at most five validated redirects, limits response
size, and caps each run at 20 unique domains. The output reports retrieval,
metadata, recursive JSON-LD types, robots, sitemap, llms.txt, a disclosed
technical rubric, evidence URLs, fixes, and explicit limits. The score is a
technical coverage measure, not a search rank or citation probability.

### Publish (operator, one-time)

This is a "maintain / parallel lottery ticket" from the pilot reset (see `../../overview/IMPLEMENTATION-PLAN.md` §4). To publish + get paid:

1. Complete the legal beneficiary, verification, and payout setup in Apify.
2. `apify push` this folder, configure one `result` pay-per-event charge, and publish the Actor.
3. 21-day kill: if $0 in paid runs after 3 weeks, stop investing (the only newcomer datapoint on Apify is $0/2wk — cap the effort).

### Local test

```
npm install && apify run   # or: node main.js  (with an INPUT.json)
```

# Actor input Schema

## `domains` (type: `array`):

One or more websites to audit (e.g. "example.com"). Either this or Start URLs.

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Alternative: a list of {url} objects (Apify's standard URL input).

## `siteType` (type: `string`):

Changes the expected schema coverage. It does not change the public fetch boundary.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "domains": [
    "samedaydesk.com"
  ],
  "siteType": "general"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

The default dataset containing successful audits and per-domain errors.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "domains": [
        "samedaydesk.com"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("epistemedeus/ai-search-readiness-checker").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "domains": ["samedaydesk.com"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("epistemedeus/ai-search-readiness-checker").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "domains": [
    "samedaydesk.com"
  ]
}' |
apify call epistemedeus/ai-search-readiness-checker --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,epistemedeus/ai-search-readiness-checker"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/YpyBuK8NxHzGWy5a5/builds/AclcIc6DHbjvUhp2z/openapi.json