# Bill 96 French-Parity Website Checker (`master_invictus/bill96-french-parity-checker`) Actor

Check that English pages have working French equivalents (Quebec Bill 96 / Charter of the French Language).

- **URL**: https://apify.com/master_invictus/bill96-french-parity-checker.md
- **Developed by:** [Frank Nagy](https://apify.com/master_invictus) (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

$5.00 / 1,000 page analyseds

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?

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

## Bill 96 / Loi 96 French-Parity Website Checker

Crawls up to N same-host pages (no browser, so it is fast and cheap). For each page it:

- detects the language from visible text (franc), and from `<html lang>`;
- finds the French equivalent (hreflang or the "Français" switcher link) and checks that it responds;
- computes an English-only text ratio.

Issues flagged: `ENGLISH_PAGE_WITHOUT_FR_EQUIVALENT`, `FR_EQUIVALENT_BROKEN_xxx`, `FR_PAGE_WITH_SIGNIFICANT_ENGLISH`, `HTML_LANG_MISMATCH`. The first dataset row is a site summary, which is also saved in the key-value store as `SUMMARY`.
**Input:** `startUrl` (default `https://example.com`), `maxPages` (default 2), `verifyFrLinks`. **Fails loudly** when 0 pages are analysed. The default is one small public page so the Apify Store health run needs no credentials and finishes quickly; raise `maxPages` for a real site.
**Limits:** heuristic indicator only, not legal advice on the Charter of the French Language. JS-only sites (SPA) show little text; a Playwright mode is a planned v2.

***

### Français / French summary

#### Vérificateur de parité française (Loi 96)

Parcourt jusqu'à N pages du site. Pour chaque page, il détecte la langue, trouve l'équivalent français (hreflang ou lien « Français ») et vérifie qu'il répond, puis calcule la proportion de texte uniquement en anglais.
Une ligne de synthèse est produite pour l'ensemble du site.
**Échec explicite** si aucune page n'est analysée. Indicateur automatisé, ne constitue pas un avis juridique sur la Charte de la langue française.

***

Built and maintained by **MasterInvictus**.

# Actor input Schema

## `startUrl` (type: `string`):

Homepage or section to crawl (same host only). The default is a single public page so a run with no input finishes quickly.

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

Maximum pages to analyse (each is billed). Default is 2 so the store health run stays within a few seconds.

## `verifyFrLinks` (type: `boolean`):

Request each French equivalent to confirm it is not broken.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrl": "https://example.com",
  "maxPages": 2,
  "verifyFrLinks": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

First row is the site summary, then one row per page.

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

SUMMARY record in the key-value store.

# 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 = {
    "startUrl": "https://example.com",
    "maxPages": 2
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("master_invictus/bill96-french-parity-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 = {
    "startUrl": "https://example.com",
    "maxPages": 2,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("master_invictus/bill96-french-parity-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 '{
  "startUrl": "https://example.com",
  "maxPages": 2
}' |
apify call master_invictus/bill96-french-parity-checker --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,master_invictus/bill96-french-parity-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/MhypMLcKFOk304AxU/builds/PlvCb6OH5fphjzcLL/openapi.json