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. Export results to JSON, CSV or Excel.

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 for reliable access at scale.

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
}

Output schema

Field	Type	Description
input	string (URL)	The original URL you supplied.
url	string (URL)	The URL that was checked.
ok	boolean	True when the URL responded with a 2xx/3xx status.
broken	boolean	True when the URL is genuinely dead (404/410/5xx).
blocked	boolean	True when access was restricted (401/403/429).
statusCode	string	Final HTTP status code after redirects.
finalUrl	string (URL)	The URL the request landed on after all redirects.
redirectCount	integer	Number of redirects followed.
redirectChain	array	Each redirect hop with its URL, status and location.
responseTimeMs	integer	End-to-end response time in milliseconds.
contentType	string	Content-Type header of the final response.
contentLength	string	Content-Length header of the final response.
server	string	Server header of the final response.
title	string	<title> text of successful HTML pages.
ssl	string	SSL certificate details: issuer, expiry date, days to expiry and whether it is trusted.
error	string	Classified failure reason, or null when the check succeeded.

Pricing

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

FAQ

Do I need an account or API key? No. The Actor works over plain HTTP with no login or API key — just supply your list of URLs.

How many URLs can I check per run? Thousands in a single run. maxItems caps the total (0 = all) and maxConcurrency controls how many URLs are checked in parallel (default 20).

Is bulk URL checking legal? The Actor only reads the HTTP response of the URLs you supply. You are responsible for having the right to audit those targets and for respecting each site's terms and rate limits.

What's the output format? A JSON dataset with one row per URL (status, broken/blocked flags, redirect chain, response time, title, SSL details). Export as JSON, CSV, or Excel from the Apify Console or API.

Can I filter or limit results? Yes. Use maxItems, maxConcurrency, and maxRedirects, and toggle checkSsl and fetchTitle on or off to trade detail for speed.

Can I connect this Actor to other apps? The Bulk URL Status Checker can be connected with almost any cloud service or web app thanks to integrations on the Apify platform. It works with Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub, Google Drive and many more, plus the Apify API, JavaScript/Python clients and MCP. Or use webhooks to trigger an action whenever a run finishes.

Related Actors

Combine this with other web-diagnostics and archival tools:

• Domain Inspector — WHOIS/RDAP, DNS, and SSL details for any domain.
• Wayback Machine Scraper — list archived snapshots of a URL or domain.
• Bulk Image Downloader — fetch and store images at scale from a URL list.
• Website Content Crawler — crawl a site into clean text for analysis or RAG.

Notes

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