# URL Parameter Indexability Auditor (`junipr/url-parameter-indexability-auditor`) Actor

Audit url parameter indexability auditor inputs and return structured findings, evidence rows, and a buyer-ready report for SEO, developer, and operations teams.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/junipr/url-parameter-indexability-auditor.md
- **Developed by:** [junipr](https://apify.com/junipr) (community)
- **Categories:** SEO 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 url parameter indexability auditor 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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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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".

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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).
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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

## URL Parameter Indexability Auditor

### Store Positioning

**Store title:** URL Parameter Indexability Auditor

**Short description:** Audit url parameter indexability auditor inputs and return structured findings, evidence rows, and a buyer-ready report for SEO, developer, and operations teams.

**SEO title:** URL Parameter Indexability Auditor — technical SEO, web, and domain audit

**SEO description:** Audit url parameter indexability auditor inputs and return structured findings, evidence rows, and a buyer-ready report for SEO, developer, and operations teams. Use it to find crawlability, indexability, security, metadata, and page-quality issues with evidence-backed rows and audit reports.

**Categories:** SEO\_TOOLS

**Keywords:** url, parameter, indexability, auditor, structured data, public data, 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. URL Parameter Indexability Auditor: 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. URL Parameter Indexability Auditor: 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. URL Parameter Indexability Auditor: 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. URL Parameter Indexability Auditor: 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. URL Parameter Indexability Auditor: charged when audit report generated is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.

### Public Task Concepts

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

URL Parameter Indexability Auditor evaluates parameterized pages against their clean base URL, canonical target, and robots directives. It identifies indexable tracking/filter/search variants, self-canonical parameter pages, duplicate query-order variants, and rule conflicts that can create crawl bloat.

### What it checks

- Fetches public parameterized URLs or parses supplied HTML while retaining final status and URL.
- Emits one computed row per query parameter, including category, clean base URL, canonical type, indexability, and risk.
- Classifies tracking, navigation, search, facet, sort, and unknown parameters.
- Detects self-canonical indexable variants, noindex/canonical conflicts, duplicate parameter-order groups, high parameter counts, and ignored policy rules.
- Applies `parameterRules` and `trackingParameterNames` directly to classification and risk decisions.

### Reports

The default key-value store includes the Markdown audit, per-URL CSV, parameter-name summary, indexable-URL list, tracking warnings, and duplicate-order groups. Reports are generated from the same rows returned in the dataset.

### Example input

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.wikipedia.org/"
  ],
  "sitemapUrls": [
    "https://www.wikipedia.org/"
  ],
  "htmlInputs": [
    {
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page",
      "html": "<!doctype html><html lang=\"en\"><head><title>URL Parameter Indexability Auditor Demo</title><meta name=\"description\" content=\"A public page for technical SEO analysis.\"><meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width, initial-scale=1\"><link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page\"><link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/site.css\"><link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"/local.css\" integrity=\"sha384-bad\"><script src=\"https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/app.js\"></script><script src=\"/ok.js\" integrity=\"sha256-q3bAT6PqU/NkM+nmCzOxM1iv7FPl/JTMqy0YgkNF7+k=\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"></script></head><body><h1>URL Parameter Indexability Auditor</h1><h3>Skipped level</h3><p>Updated on 2026-06-20. This page has enough text to support readability, content quality, architecture, link, image, and technical SEO checks with deterministic computed evidence generated from markup.</p><nav><a href=\"/wiki/Main_Page\">Main Page</a><a href=\"https://www.mediawiki.org/\">External docs</a></nav><img src=\"/logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\"><form action=\"https://forms.example.org/submit\"><label>Email<input type=\"email\" name=\"email\" required></label><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"token\" value=\"abc\"></form><script type=\"application/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"https://schema.org\",\"@type\":\"Product\",\"name\":\"Demo Product\",\"sku\":\"sku-1\",\"offers\":{\"@type\":\"Offer\",\"price\":\"19.00\",\"priceCurrency\":\"USD\",\"availability\":\"https://schema.org/InStock\"}}</script></body></html>",
      "headers": {
        "cache-control": "max-age=3600",
        "content-encoding": "br",
        "last-modified": "Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT"
      }
    }
  ],
  "allowedDomains": "",
  "parameterRules": [],
  "trackingParameterNames": [],
  "maxUrls": 3,
  "maxParametersPerUrl": 3,
  "checkCanonical": true,
  "checkRobotsDirectives": true,
  "detectDuplicateParameterOrders": true,
  "includeEvidence": true,
  "requestDelayMs": 3,
  "timeoutMs": 3
}
```

### Output fields

sourceUrl, finalUrl, statusCode, parameterName, parameterValue, parameterCategory, parameterCount, canonicalUrl, canonicalType, robotsIndexable, selfCanonical, baseUrl, duplicateParameterOrderGroupId, trackingParameterPresent, indexabilityRisk, issueCode, severity, recommendation

### Cost controls

Use `maxUrls` and `maxParametersPerUrl` to bound work. Raw HTML inputs are useful for repeatable monitoring, while URL inputs use the same production parser after fetching the public response.

### Limitations

Results describe observed indexability signals; they do not update canonical tags, robots directives, Search Console settings, or site routing.

# Actor input Schema

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

start urls used by URL Parameter Indexability Auditor.

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

sitemap urls used by URL Parameter Indexability Auditor.

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

html inputs used by URL Parameter Indexability Auditor.

## `allowedDomains` (type: `string`):

allowed domains used by URL Parameter Indexability Auditor.

## `parameterRules` (type: `array`):

parameter rules used by URL Parameter Indexability Auditor.

## `trackingParameterNames` (type: `array`):

tracking parameter names used by URL Parameter Indexability Auditor.

## `maxUrls` (type: `integer`):

max urls used by URL Parameter Indexability Auditor.

## `maxParametersPerUrl` (type: `integer`):

max parameters per url used by URL Parameter Indexability Auditor.

## `checkCanonical` (type: `boolean`):

check canonical used by URL Parameter Indexability Auditor.

## `checkRobotsDirectives` (type: `boolean`):

check robots directives used by URL Parameter Indexability Auditor.

## `detectDuplicateParameterOrders` (type: `boolean`):

detect duplicate parameter orders used by URL Parameter Indexability Auditor.

## `includeEvidence` (type: `boolean`):

include evidence used by URL Parameter Indexability Auditor.

## `requestDelayMs` (type: `integer`):

request delay ms used by URL Parameter Indexability Auditor.

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

timeout ms used by URL Parameter Indexability Auditor.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.wikipedia.org/"
  ],
  "sitemapUrls": [
    "https://www.wikipedia.org/"
  ],
  "htmlInputs": [
    {
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.wikipedia.org/",
      "html": "<html><head><title>Reference Page</title><meta name='description' content='Reference content for local review.'><link rel='canonical' href='https://www.wikipedia.org/'></head><body><h1>Reference Page</h1><p>This public reference page has useful content, navigation, and links for local analysis.</p><a href='/wiki/Main_Page'>Main Page</a><img src='/static/logo.png' alt='Wikipedia logo' width='120' height='80'></body></html>"
    }
  ],
  "allowedDomains": "",
  "parameterRules": [],
  "trackingParameterNames": [],
  "maxUrls": 3,
  "maxParametersPerUrl": 3,
  "checkCanonical": true,
  "checkRobotsDirectives": true,
  "detectDuplicateParameterOrders": true,
  "includeEvidence": true,
  "requestDelayMs": 3,
  "timeoutMs": 3
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

No description

## `reports` (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/url-parameter-indexability-auditor").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/url-parameter-indexability-auditor").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/url-parameter-indexability-auditor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,junipr/url-parameter-indexability-auditor"
        }
    }
}

```

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/QQEUuFbSAkpc5BfDk/builds/bP9ZPpsfHKXEcX9Ig/openapi.json
