# Bulk URL Status & Broken Link Checker — Redirects, SSL (`masahishop/url-checker`) Actor

Check thousands of URLs: HTTP status, broken links (404/500), full redirect chains, response time, SSL certificate expiry, title, canonical and meta robots. $0.50 per 1,000 URLs.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/masahishop/url-checker.md
- **Developed by:** [Masahi Shop](https://apify.com/masahishop) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, SEO tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.43 / 1,000 url checkeds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## 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.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Bulk URL Status & Broken Link Checker — Redirects, SSL

Check **thousands of URLs** in one run and find **broken links, redirect chains, slow pages and expiring SSL certificates**. **$0.50 per 1,000 URLs.**

- **HTTP status** with a simple result category: `ok`, `redirect`, `client_error` (404...), `server_error` (5xx), `ssl_error`, `unreachable`
- **Full redirect chain** (every hop with its status code) and the final URL
- **Response time**
- **SSL certificate**: valid or not, issuer, expiry date and **days until expiry**
- Optional **title, canonical URL and meta robots** (for SEO audits)
- Lightweight **HEAD requests** where possible, polite delays per site

### What can it be used for?

- **Broken link checks** for sitemaps, exports, link lists or backlinks
- **Redirect audits** after a site migration (http→https, old→new URLs)
- **SSL expiry monitoring** for all your domains (run it on a schedule)
- **Uptime spot checks** and response-time comparison
- **SEO checks**: canonical, meta robots and X-Robots-Tag for a list of URLs

### Input

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `urls` | URLs to check (`example.com` → `https://example.com`) |
| `includeTitle` | Also read title, canonical and meta robots (uses GET) |
| `checkSsl` | Certificate details (default on) |
| `maxRedirects`, `timeoutSecs`, `minDelayPerSiteMs`, `maxConcurrency` | Limits and politeness |

### Output

```json
{
    "url": "http://github.com",
    "status": 200,
    "ok": true,
    "category": "ok",
    "finalUrl": "https://github.com/",
    "redirected": true,
    "redirectCount": 1,
    "redirectChain": [{ "url": "http://github.com", "status": 301, "responseTimeMs": 73 }],
    "responseTimeMs": 49,
    "contentType": "text/html; charset=utf-8",
    "server": "github.com",
    "method": "GET",
    "title": "GitHub · Change is constant. GitHub keeps you ahead. · GitHub · GitHub",
    "canonical": "https://github.com",
    "ssl": {
        "valid": true,
        "issuer": "Sectigo Limited",
        "subject": "github.com",
        "validFrom": "2026-09-01T00:00:00.000Z",
        "validTo": "2026-11-29T23:59:59.000Z",
        "daysUntilExpiry": 54
    },
    "checkedAt": "2026-10-06T00:20:40.554Z"
}
```

An expired certificate is reported as `"category": "ssl_error"` with the certificate details (e.g. `"daysUntilExpiry": -4195`).

A `SUMMARY` record with counts per category is saved in the run's key-value store.

### Pricing

| Event | Price |
|---|---|
| URL checked | $0.0005 ($0.50 per 1,000) |

Every checked URL is charged, including unreachable ones (that is the result of the check). Platform usage is included.

### Notes

- Only the URLs you provide are requested — the Actor does not crawl pages to find links.
- Some sites block automated requests or answer HEAD differently; the Actor falls back to GET when HEAD is not supported.

# Actor input Schema

## `urls` (type: `array`):

URLs to check (a missing scheme defaults to https://). Only these URLs are requested.

## `includeTitle` (type: `boolean`):

Downloads the HTML (GET instead of HEAD) to read the page title, canonical URL and meta robots tag.

## `checkSsl` (type: `boolean`):

Validity, issuer and days until the certificate expires.

## `maxRedirects` (type: `integer`):

The full redirect chain is recorded.

## `timeoutSecs` (type: `integer`):

Maximum time for one request.

## `minDelayPerSiteMs` (type: `integer`):

Spaces out requests to each host.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

URLs checked at the same time (across different sites).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "urls": [
    "http://github.com",
    "https://example.com/this-page-does-not-exist",
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown"
  ],
  "includeTitle": false,
  "checkSsl": true,
  "maxRedirects": 10,
  "timeoutSecs": 20,
  "minDelayPerSiteMs": 500,
  "maxConcurrency": 10
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

Status, redirects, SSL and timing per URL.

## `overview` (type: `string`):

Status and result category per URL.

## `summary` (type: `string`):

Counts per result category.

# 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 = {
    "urls": [
        "http://github.com",
        "https://example.com/this-page-does-not-exist",
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("masahishop/url-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 = { "urls": [
        "http://github.com",
        "https://example.com/this-page-does-not-exist",
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("masahishop/url-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 '{
  "urls": [
    "http://github.com",
    "https://example.com/this-page-does-not-exist",
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown"
  ]
}' |
apify call masahishop/url-checker --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,masahishop/url-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/dEEmA8nOeOYYxPNHv/builds/Xj6taXDiNJFgJxhyI/openapi.json