Website Migration & Redirect Intelligence Agent

Turn redirect checking into migration intelligence. This Actor verifies where each source URL actually lands, whether it matches the expected migration target, whether the final page is healthy and HTTPS, whether its canonical agrees with the destination, and whether routing changed since a previous snapshot.

Why use this Actor

A migration can look successful while valuable URLs quietly land on the wrong page, collect multiple hops, lose HTTPS, change canonical targets or drift after a later deployment. This Actor produces one structured risk result per source URL so SEO, engineering and AI-agent workflows can act on evidence instead of manually following browser redirects.

Key features

• Follow and record complete redirect chains.
• Validate expected source-to-target migration mappings.
• Check final HTTP status, HTTPS landing and canonical consistency.
• Detect redirect loops and excessive chains.
• Compare final URL, status, canonical and hop count with previous snapshots.
• Produce migrationRiskScore, migrationReadiness, agentAction and concise evidence.
• Optional fail-on-risk behavior for CI and release gates.
• Concurrent HTTP-first execution in a 256 MB runtime.

Input

Provide public source URLs. Optionally add expectedTargets and previousSnapshots to turn a one-time audit into migration verification and ongoing drift monitoring.

{"urls":["https://example.com/old"],"expectedTargets":{"https://example.com/old":"https://example.com/new"}}

Output

Each source URL creates one dataset row containing the redirect chain, final URL and status, canonical evidence, expected-target match, changed snapshot fields, migration risk and an agent-oriented recommended action.

Example

A source URL that lands on an unexpected destination with a conflicting canonical can return migrationReadiness: BLOCK, a high migrationRiskScore, and agentAction: FIX_MIGRATION_MAPPING. A stable one-hop redirect to the expected HTTPS destination can return PASS.

Use cases

Use it for domain migrations, CMS and ecommerce replatforming, URL redesigns, HTTP-to-HTTPS projects, post-deploy QA, canonical drift monitoring, agency client audits, weekly routing checks and AI-agent release gates.

Pricing

Pay per result. The base configured price is $0.0025 USD per source URL result, with tiered discounts applied by Apify account tier where supported. One source URL produces one independently useful migration intelligence row.

Limitations

Only public HTTP/HTTPS targets are supported. Canonical analysis uses returned HTML and does not execute client-side JavaScript. The Actor reports observed routing and SEO signals; it does not guarantee search-engine indexing, rankings or traffic outcomes.

Gen2 decision intelligence

This Actor preserves its original analysis and adds a decision layer with baseline awareness, regression detection, confidence, GO/WARN/BLOCK executive output, and an optional economic-impact estimate. Economic estimates are produced only when the user supplies valuePerImpactUnitUsd; the result states the calculation basis instead of inventing monetary value.