Local Website Verdict for Agency Lead Lists

Classify each business website as a real site, a social profile, a parked domain, a dead page, or a thin page. Paste website URLs, or point at a dataset of them. For every URL the Actor saves one row with the verdict, the final URL, the HTTP status, a short reason, and the page title.

This is a single-page check, not a site crawler. It fetches the given URL once and does not open contact pages, collect email addresses, or call Google Maps.

Why use Local Business Website Verdict?

A maps lead list often contains a website field that is not a website. It might be a Facebook page, a domain for sale, a dead link, or a one-line placeholder. This Actor answers that question before you spend money on a deeper crawl.

• One row per URL. The verdict is real_site, social_only, parked, dead, or thin.
• One fetch. The Actor does not follow links to contact, about, or team pages.
• No nested Actor. It does not start Google Maps, Compass, or any other Actor, so there is no second Maps bill.
• No email scraping. Page text is used only to judge the page. It is not stored, and addresses are not extracted.
• Dataset in, dataset out. Paste URLs or pass a dataset id you already have. Download the verdicts as JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML, or read them from the Apify API.

You can schedule runs, call the Actor from the API tab, and integrate it with the rest of Apify. Memory is capped at 512 MB because the job is a plain HTTP fetch.

Related Actors for local agencies

These three Actors are for agencies selling websites or ads to local businesses.

• No-Website Phone Leads for Local Agencies — call-ready US Google Maps businesses with no real website. $0.008 per qualified lead that has a phone. Google Maps Scraper (Compass) is a separate Apify charge.
• New Maps Openings Monitor for Local Agencies — likely-new and newly appeared listings. $0.015 per saved row. The first monitor run learns the city and does not charge for leads. Compass is billed separately.
• Local Website Verdict for Agency Lead Lists — this Actor. $0.004 per saved website verdict. Does not call Google Maps, so there is no Compass charge.

What data can Local Business Website Verdict extract?

Field	Type	Description
inputUrl	string	The URL you submitted.
verdict	string	real_site, social_only, parked, dead, or thin.
finalUrl	string or null	The URL after redirects.
httpStatus	number or null	HTTP status of that one fetch.
title	string or null	The HTML page title.
reason	string	A short explanation of the verdict.

Social hosts (Facebook, Instagram, X, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, and the other profile hosts listed in the code) are social_only even when the server returns an error. HTTP statuses outside 200–299, and connection failures, are dead. For-sale and domain-parking pages are parked. Pages with very little visible text are thin. Everything else that returns a normal document is real_site.

How to check a business website

1. Open Local Business Website Verdict in Apify Console.
2. Paste up to a few website URLs in Website URLs. The prefilled example is three public pages: Wikipedia, example.com, and a Facebook page.
3. Or paste a dataset id in Dataset of URLs. Items can use url, website, or websiteUrl.
4. Set the run's max charge. The minimum is about $0.05. Leave it there for a cheap test.
5. Start the run and open the dataset. One saved row is one website verdict.

The same input works from the Apify API. See the input tab for the fields.

How much will it cost to check websites?

Pricing model: pay per event. There is no rental fee and no platform-usage add-on in this price.

Event	Title	Price	When it is charged
apify-actor-start	Actor start	$0.00005	Once when the run starts. This Actor allows at most 512 MB, so the start event is charged once, not once per extra gigabyte.
website-verdict	Website verdict	$0.004	Once per saved verdict row. This is the primary event.

The Actor charges website-verdict only when that row is saved. A URL that produces no row is not charged. Actor start is charged by the platform. The code does not charge it again.

There is no second Google Maps bill. This Actor never calls the Google Maps scraper, Compass, or any other Actor. It also does not use Apify Proxy, so there is no proxy line on the run.

Set the minimum allowed max charge (minimalMaxTotalChargeUsd) to $0.05. A buyer cannot set a cap below that. The prefilled 3-URL example costs about $0.01205 (one start plus three verdicts), which fits inside that cap.

Saved rows	Verdict charges	Plus one start	Total
1	$0.004	$0.00005	$0.00405
3	$0.012	$0.00005	$0.01205
12	$0.048	$0.00005	$0.04805
1,000	$4.00	$0.00005	$4.00005

When you publish monetization, keep apify-actor-start at $0.00005, add website-verdict at $0.004 with the title Website verdict, and mark website-verdict as the primary event. Remove the synthetic apify-default-dataset-item event if the console adds it. If that event stays on, each saved row would be billed twice.

Input

See the input tab for the full form.

• Website URLs — one URL per line. The example input is three public URLs so a Store test stays cheap and still returns rows.
• Dataset of URLs — an existing dataset id. The Actor only reads items from that dataset. It does not discover URLs by running another Actor.

{
    "startUrls": [
        { "url": "https://www.wikipedia.org" },
        { "url": "https://example.com" },
        { "url": "https://www.facebook.com/facebook" }
    ]
}

Only http and https URLs are fetched. Other schemes are saved as dead and are not requested.

Output

You can download the dataset as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel.

[
    {
        "inputUrl": "https://www.wikipedia.org/",
        "finalUrl": "https://www.wikipedia.org/",
        "httpStatus": 200,
        "verdict": "real_site",
        "reason": "Page returned a normal document with enough text to be a real site.",
        "title": "Wikipedia"
    },
    {
        "inputUrl": "https://example.com/",
        "finalUrl": "https://example.com/",
        "httpStatus": 200,
        "verdict": "thin",
        "reason": "Page has very little text.",
        "title": "Example Domain"
    },
    {
        "inputUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/facebook",
        "finalUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/facebook",
        "httpStatus": 200,
        "verdict": "social_only",
        "reason": "Host is a social network (facebook.com).",
        "title": "Facebook"
    }
]

The sample titles above are illustrations. A live run stores the title the site actually returns.

Tips

• Keep the max charge near $0.05 until you trust the rows. Twelve verdicts fit under that cap.
• Run this on a website column you already exported. You do not need a new maps scrape to use it.
• A social link, a parked domain, and a thin placeholder are all saved on purpose. They are the answers, not failures.
• JavaScript-only pages can look thin, because the Actor does not open a browser.

FAQ, disclaimers, and support

Does this call Google Maps?

No. There is no second Maps or Compass bill. The only charges are Actor start ($0.00005) and Website verdict ($0.004 per saved row).

Does it scrape emails or contact pages?

No. It does not extract email addresses, phone numbers, or personal profiles, and it does not crawl beyond the one URL you provided.

What if the site blocks the fetch?

You still get a row. A connection error or an HTTP error is dead, unless the host is a social network, in which case the verdict stays social_only.

Our Actors are ethical and do not extract private user data, such as email addresses, gender, or location. They only read the public page at the URL you supplied. We therefore believe that our Actors, when used for ethical purposes by Apify users, are safe. However, you should be aware that a page title could contain personal data. Personal data is protected by the GDPR in the European Union and by other regulations around the world. You should not scrape personal data unless you have a legitimate reason to do so. If you're unsure whether your reason is legitimate, consult your lawyers.

Questions and bugs belong on the Issues tab. Programmatic runs use the API tab.