# Content Freshness Date Extractor (`junipr/content-freshness-date-extractor`) Actor

Extract published, modified, updated, visible, sitemap, and HTTP date signals and flag freshness issues.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/junipr/content-freshness-date-extractor.md
- **Developed by:** [junipr](https://apify.com/junipr) (community)
- **Categories:** SEO tools, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $4.90 / 1,000 content freshness date extractor page auditeds

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

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

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# README

## Content Freshness Date Extractor

### Store Positioning

**Store title:** Content Freshness Date Extractor

**Short description:** Extract published, modified, updated, visible, sitemap, and HTTP date signals and flag freshness issues.

**SEO title:** Content Freshness Date Extractor — technical SEO, web, and domain audit

**SEO description:** Extract published, modified, updated, visible, sitemap, and HTTP date signals and flag freshness issues. Use it to find crawlability, indexability, security, metadata, and page-quality issues with evidence-backed rows and audit reports.

**Categories:** SEO\_TOOLS, DEVELOPER\_TOOLS

**Keywords:** content, freshness, date, extractor, sitemap, web/domain audit

### Fixed-Inclusive PPE Pricing

This actor uses pay-per-event pricing. Event prices include Apify platform usage; users are not expected to pay a separate platform-usage pass-through charge for the configured pricing model.

- Tier: W1 — Web/domain audit
- Primary event: `page-audited` at $0.00490 base
- Default max charge: $10.00
- Store discounts: FREE/BRONZE base, SILVER discounted, GOLD deepest approved discount

Event set:

- `actor-start`: base $0.00500, GOLD $0.00400. Content Freshness Date Extractor: charged when actor start is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.
- `page-audited`: base $0.00490, GOLD $0.00392. Content Freshness Date Extractor: charged when page audited is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.
- `record-extracted`: base $0.00372, GOLD $0.00298. Content Freshness Date Extractor: charged when record extracted is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.
- `finding-emitted`: base $0.00372, GOLD $0.00298. Content Freshness Date Extractor: charged when finding emitted is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.
- `audit-report-generated`: base $0.05000, GOLD $0.04000. Content Freshness Date Extractor: charged when audit report generated is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.

### Public Task Concepts

- Audit Content Freshness Date controls on a capped public sample
- Find high-priority Content Freshness Date issues before release
- Validate Content Freshness Date evidence from supplied pages
- Prioritize Content Freshness Date fixes with severity and proof
- Export Content Freshness Date QA rows for client review

Extract published, modified, updated, visible, sitemap, and HTTP date signals and flag freshness issues.

This actor supports real URL fetching, sitemap discovery, and offline supplied HTML/text paths where advertised by the locked spec. It writes dataset rows and key-value store report artifacts.

### Inputs

- `startUrls`
- `sitemapUrls`
- `htmlInputs`
- `headerInputs`
- `allowedDomains`
- `maxPages`
- `maxDepth`
- `staleAfterDays`
- `dateTypes`
- `includeVisibleDateExtraction`
- `includeJsonLdDates`
- `includeSitemapLastmod`
- `timeoutMs`

### Dataset fields

- `sourceUrl`
- `pageTitle`
- `dateType`
- `rawDateText`
- `normalizedDate`
- `timezone`
- `sourceType`
- `sourceField`
- `confidence`
- `sitemapLastModified`
- `httpLastModified`
- `daysOld`
- `conflictDetected`
- `stale`
- `issueCode`
- `evidenceSnippet`
- `recommendation`

### Local validation

Run `npm test` for exact-value analyzer tests and `npm run check` for JavaScript syntax validation.

### Billing and cost controls

This actor uses fixed-inclusive pay-per-event pricing. It charges `actor-start`, then `page-audited` before each dataset row, and `audit-report-generated` before report artifacts. `maxChargeUsd` is enforced locally and in Apify runs; uncharged rows and reports are withheld. Platform usage pass-through remains off.

# Actor input Schema

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

Public page URLs to fetch and audit. Keep runs bounded with maxPages and allowedDomains.

## `sitemapUrls` (type: `array`):

XML sitemap URLs whose listed pages should be sampled for this audit.

## `htmlInputs` (type: `array`):

Inline HTML documents to audit without fetching live pages.

## `headerInputs` (type: `array`):

Supplied HTTP header records to audit alongside HTML inputs.

## `allowedDomains` (type: `array`):

Optional hostname allowlist used to keep crawls constrained to approved domains.

## `maxPages` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of pages or records to process in one run.

## `maxDepth` (type: `integer`):

Maximum crawl depth from supplied start URLs.

## `staleAfterDays` (type: `integer`):

Number of days after which detected content dates should be treated as stale.

## `dateTypes` (type: `array`):

Date signal types to extract from visible text, metadata, structured data, or sitemaps.

## `includeVisibleDateExtraction` (type: `boolean`):

Extract visible publication, modified, and review date text from page content.

## `includeJsonLdDates` (type: `boolean`):

Extract datePublished and dateModified values from JSON-LD when present.

## `includeSitemapLastmod` (type: `boolean`):

Include sitemap lastmod values as freshness evidence when available.

## `timeoutMs` (type: `integer`):

Per-request timeout in milliseconds for live fetches.

## `maxChargeUsd` (type: `number`):

Stop before paid output would exceed this fixed-inclusive PPE limit.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [],
  "sitemapUrls": [],
  "htmlInputs": [],
  "headerInputs": [],
  "allowedDomains": [],
  "maxPages": 25,
  "maxDepth": 1,
  "staleAfterDays": 0,
  "dateTypes": [],
  "includeVisibleDateExtraction": true,
  "includeJsonLdDates": true,
  "includeSitemapLastmod": true,
  "timeoutMs": 15000,
  "maxChargeUsd": 10
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `dataset` (type: `string`):

No description

## `report` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("junipr/content-freshness-date-extractor").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 = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("junipr/content-freshness-date-extractor").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 '{}' |
apify call junipr/content-freshness-date-extractor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,junipr/content-freshness-date-extractor"
        }
    }
}

```

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/WV38DPrUH2SrUMcmQ/builds/aHFBPEXfl0Ij9FotV/openapi.json