# Bill 96 Bulk Storefront Auditor: French-Parity at Scale (`master_invictus/bill96-bulk-storefront-auditor`) Actor

Audit Shopify and other storefronts for French-language parity under Quebec Bill 96. One readiness score per store, with per-page issues and fix suggestions.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/master_invictus/bill96-bulk-storefront-auditor.md
- **Developed by:** [Frank Nagy](https://apify.com/master_invictus) (community)
- **Categories:** SEO tools, Developer tools
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## Pricing

Pay per event

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/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#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.

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

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

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# README

## Bill 96 Bulk Storefront Auditor: French-Parity at Scale

Audits a list of Shopify and other storefronts for French-language parity under Quebec's Bill 96 / Charter of the French language. Each store is one dataset item. The score is the **MasterInvictus French-parity score (not legal advice)**, from 0 to 100.

This is an automated heuristic, not legal advice and not a finding by the Office québécois de la langue française.

**Input:** `storefrontUrls[]` (required; defaults to `https://www.ssense.com`), `maxPagesPerStore` (default 5, max 50), `maxConcurrency` (default 4), `requestTimeoutSecs` (default 20), `respectRobotsTxt` (default on). An empty input audits that one store and stops after 5 pages.

**What is crawled, per store:** the homepage, then key pages up to the page cap. Candidates come from `Sitemap:` lines in `/robots.txt`, from `/sitemap.xml` (including nested sitemap indexes), and from same-origin links on the homepage. Collections, products, policies, cart, and the checkout entry are taken first. Standard Shopify paths (`/cart`, `/checkout`, `/collections/all`, `/policies/…`) are requested only when that kind of page was not already found. A fallback that 404s is recorded as not found and is not billed. `robots.txt` disallow rules are honored (including a crawl-delay, capped at 5 seconds). Requests time out individually and stay within `maxConcurrency`.

**French pairing:** each discovered page is matched to one French counterpart. The actor reads `<link rel="alternate" hreflang="fr">` (`fr`, `fr-CA`, or any `fr-*`), then tries locale swaps (`/en-xx/` to `/fr-xx/`, `/en/` to `/fr/`, `en.` to `fr.`, and `?lang=fr`) and keeps the first URL that returns 200. When that French page exists, its content is what gets audited, and the result records the pair (`enUrl`, `frUrl`). The same pair is checked once. A missing-French issue is recorded only when no French version can be found. Confirming the counterpart does not add a second `page-checked` charge.

**Checks on each page:**

- French version available (the page is French, or a confirmed hreflang / locale counterpart returned 200)
- French at least as prominent (French text is not outweighed by English, and a separate French URL is at least as long)
- Untranslated product titles and descriptions, judged on the French page when a counterpart exists
- English-only policies
- Images whose alt text is English-only, judged on the French page when a counterpart exists
- Visible language switcher (a Français link, locale option, or an English link on either side of the pair)

Language detection is the same franc-based logic as `bill96-french-parity-checker`, copied into this actor because each actor image only contains its own directory.

**Output:** one dataset item per store with `score`, `scoreLabel` (**MasterInvictus French-parity score (not legal advice)**), `scoreBreakdown`, `pages[]` (issues and fix suggestions per page), and store-level `fixSuggestions`. A summary CSV is saved in the key-value store as `SUMMARY.csv`.

The run fails when the input is invalid or when zero pages could be checked.

### Pricing (pay-per-event)

| Event | Price |
|---|---|
| `run-started`, once per run after at least one page is fetched successfully | $0.02 |
| `page-checked`, once per logical page checked successfully (a French counterpart fetch is not a second charge) | $0.004 |

Failed pages are free. Do not enable `apify-actor-start`. See [PRICING.md](PRICING.md).

### Score

The **MasterInvictus French-parity score (not legal advice)** is a weighted average of the checks that could be assessed: French availability (25), French prominence (20), product translation (20), policies (15), image alt text (10), and a homepage language switcher (10). A category with nothing to assess (no product pages, for example) is left out and the other weights are renormalized. 100 means every assessed check passed.

### Limits

Visible HTML only. JavaScript-only storefronts show little text. Text inside images is judged from the alt attribute, not from pixels. Short strings under 20 characters are not language-detected.

***

### Français / French summary

#### Auditeur de vitrines — parité française (Loi 96)

Vérifie une liste de boutiques en ligne. Pour chaque boutique, il parcourt les pages clés (accueil, collections, produits, panier, entrée du paiement, politiques, pied de page) et signale l'absence de version française, une version française moins présente que l'anglaise, des titres ou descriptions de produits non traduits, des politiques uniquement en anglais, des textes de remplacement d'images uniquement en anglais, et l'absence d'un sélecteur de langue.

Chaque boutique reçoit le **MasterInvictus French-parity score (not legal advice)**, de 0 à 100, avec les problèmes par page et des pistes de correction. Un CSV de synthèse est enregistré. Indicateur automatisé : ce n'est pas un avis juridique sur la Charte de la langue française.

***

Built and maintained by **MasterInvictus**.

# Actor input Schema

## `storefrontUrls` (type: `array`):

Shopify or other online-store homepages. One store is audited per URL. When omitted, the run audits https://www.ssense.com.

## `maxPagesPerStore` (type: `integer`):

Key pages checked per store: home, collections, products, cart, checkout entry, policies, and footer links. The default of 5 keeps a run that uses only the defaults short.

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

How many HTTP requests may be in flight at once, across every store in the run.

## `requestTimeoutSecs` (type: `integer`):

Per-request timeout. A timed-out page is a failed page and is not billed.

## `respectRobotsTxt` (type: `boolean`):

Skip URLs disallowed for this actor and honor Crawl-delay (capped at 5 seconds).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "storefrontUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.ssense.com"
    }
  ],
  "maxPagesPerStore": 5,
  "maxConcurrency": 4,
  "requestTimeoutSecs": 20,
  "respectRobotsTxt": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `stores` (type: `string`):

One dataset item per store, including the MasterInvictus French-parity score (not legal advice), per-page issues, and fix suggestions.

## `summaryCsv` (type: `string`):

One row per store in the key-value store, including the MasterInvictus French-parity score (not legal advice).

# 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 = {
    "storefrontUrls": [
        {
            "url": "https://www.ssense.com"
        }
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("master_invictus/bill96-bulk-storefront-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 = { "storefrontUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.ssense.com" }] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("master_invictus/bill96-bulk-storefront-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 '{
  "storefrontUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.ssense.com"
    }
  ]
}' |
apify call master_invictus/bill96-bulk-storefront-auditor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,master_invictus/bill96-bulk-storefront-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/2e7hyCzqwqxtjPgTk/builds/a6rGIwEVVCjZ0S8rX/openapi.json