Bulk URL Status Checker — Broken Links, Redirects & SSL

Audit thousands of URLs in one run. Feed the Actor any list of links and it reports each one's HTTP status, whether it's broken, the full redirect chain, response time, content type, page title, and SSL certificate expiry — over plain HTTP, no browser and no login.

Great for broken-link audits, redirect/migration QA, uptime spot-checks, sitemap validation, and SSL-expiry monitoring.

What you get per URL

Field	Notes
statusCode	Final HTTP status (200, 301, 404, 410, 500, …).
ok / broken / blocked	ok = 2xx/3xx; broken = genuinely dead (404/410/5xx); blocked = access-restricted (401/403/429, usually bot-protection — try a proxy). Keeps blocks from being mistaken for dead links.
redirectChain	Every hop: {url, status, location} — see exactly where a link lands.
redirectCount	Number of redirects followed.
finalUrl	Where the URL ended up after all redirects.
responseTimeMs	End-to-end time for the whole chain.
contentType, contentLength, server	From the final response headers.
title	<title> of successful HTML pages (toggle off for pure speed).
ssl	For https: { issuer, validTo, daysToExpiry, authorized } — catch expiring certs.
error	Classified failure: dns-error, timeout, connection-refused, ssl-error, too-many-redirects, …

Why it's more than a status checker

Besides the status code it traces the complete redirect path (not just the final landing), measures latency, grabs the page title so a report is human-readable, and checks the TLS certificate expiry — so one run doubles as a broken-link audit and an SSL-expiry watch.

Input

{
  "urls": ["https://apify.com", "https://apify.com/this-page-does-not-exist"],
  "checkSsl": true,
  "fetchTitle": true,
  "maxConcurrency": 20
}

• urls — links to check, one per line. (Or use startUrls for a request list.)
• maxRedirects — hops to trace before giving up (default 10).
• fetchTitle — read <title> of HTML pages (default on; turn off for max speed).
• checkSsl — report certificate expiry for https URLs (default on).
• maxConcurrency — URLs checked in parallel (default 20).
• maxItems — cap total URLs (0 = all).
• proxyConfiguration — optional; enable if a target blocks datacenter IPs.

Output (one row per URL)

{
  "input": "https://apify.com/this-page-does-not-exist",
  "url": "https://apify.com/this-page-does-not-exist",
  "statusCode": 404,
  "ok": false,
  "broken": true,
  "redirectCount": 0,
  "finalUrl": "https://apify.com/this-page-does-not-exist",
  "responseTimeMs": 220,
  "contentType": "text/html; charset=utf-8",
  "title": "Page not found",
  "ssl": { "issuer": "Google Trust Services", "daysToExpiry": 61, "authorized": true },
  "error": null
}

Pricing

Pay per URL checked. No monthly fee — you only pay for what you run.

Notes

Checks only the HTTP response of URLs you supply. You are responsible for having the right to audit the target URLs.