# Bulk URL Status, Redirect Chain & SEO Meta Checker (`quillbit-tools/bulk-redirect-status-checker`) Actor

Check thousands of URLs fast: HTTP status, full 301/302 redirect chain, final URL, response time, title, meta description, canonical and robots tags. For SEO audits, site migrations and broken-link checks.

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

## Pricing

from $2.00 / 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.

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, Redirect Chain & SEO Meta Checker

**Bulk URL Status & Redirect Checker** takes a list of URLs and tells you, for every one, the final **HTTP status code**, the full **redirect chain** (each 301 / 302 / 303 / 307 / 308 hop with its `Location`), the **final URL**, the response time, and the page's SEO tags: `<title>`, meta description, canonical, meta robots and the `X-Robots-Tag` header.

It follows redirects itself, one hop at a time (up to `maxRedirects`), so you see exactly where each URL ends up and how it got there. Plain HTTP requests only — no browser — so it is fast and cheap for thousands of URLs.

### What can you use it for?

#### Check redirects after a site migration

Paste your old URLs and confirm each one 301s to the right new page in a single hop, with no redirect loops or chains.

#### Bulk HTTP status code checker

Find 404, 410, 5xx and DNS/timeout errors across a URL list from a spreadsheet, sitemap or crawl export.

#### Redirect chain checker for SEO

Spot multi-hop chains (http → https → www → final) that waste crawl budget, and mixed 302/301 redirects.

#### Affiliate and short link checker

Resolve bit.ly-style short links and affiliate links to see their real destination.

#### Bulk title, meta description and canonical extractor

Audit `<title>`, meta description, canonical and noindex tags on hundreds of pages at once.

### How to use it

1. Click **Try for free** (or **Start**).
2. Enter your input (see the example below) and click **Save & Start**.
3. Download results as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or read them via the API.

### Input

- `urls` — List of URLs, one per line. Bare domains get `https://`.
- `maxRedirects` — Max hops to follow per URL (default 10).
- `extractMeta` — Read title, meta description, canonical and robots tags from HTML pages (default on).
- `concurrency` — Parallel requests (default 10, max 50).
- `timeoutSecs` — Timeout per request in seconds (default 15).

Example input:

```json
{
  "urls": [
    "http://example.com",
    "https://apify.com"
  ],
  "maxRedirects": 10,
  "extractMeta": true
}
```

### Output example

| url | status | redirectCount | finalUrl | title | responseMs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| http://example.com | 200 | 0 | http://example.com | Example Domain | 105 |
| https://apify.com | 200 | 0 | https://apify.com | Apify: Marketplace of ready-to-run tools for AI | 217 |

All output fields: `url`, `finalUrl`, `status`, `redirectCount`, `redirectChain` (list of `{url, status, location}`), `title`, `metaDescription`, `canonical`, `robotsMeta`, `xRobotsTag`, `contentType`, `responseMs`, `error`

### How much does it cost?

This Actor uses **pay-per-event** pricing. You pay only for results, not for servers or subscriptions:

- **$0.002 per URL checked**, which is **$2.00 per 1,000 URLs**
- plus Apify's standard **Actor start** event of $0.00005 per run (per GB of memory; the default 512 MB memory = one event)

| You process | You pay (approx.) |
|---|---|
| 100 URLs | $0.20 |
| 1,000 URLs | $2.00 |
| 10,000 URLs | $20.00 |

Apify's free plan includes monthly platform credit, which is enough to try this Actor at no cost.

### Run it via API, schedule or AI agents

Run from your own code with the Apify API, JavaScript or Python client, schedule it in Apify Console, connect it to Make, Zapier, n8n or Google Sheets, or let an AI agent call it through the Apify MCP server (`https://mcp.apify.com`).

```bash
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/quillbit-tools~bulk-redirect-status-checker/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"urls": ["http://example.com", "https://apify.com"], "maxRedirects": 10, "extractMeta": true}'
```

### FAQ

**Is every URL charged, even if it fails?**
Yes. Each URL in your list produces one result row (status, or an `error` such as `ENOTFOUND` or `Timeout`) and one `url-checked` event. Duplicate URLs in the input are removed first, so they are not charged twice.

**Does it run JavaScript or follow meta-refresh / JS redirects?**
No. It follows HTTP redirects (3xx + `Location` header) only. That is what search engines treat as a redirect and keeps runs fast and cheap.

**What status does it report for a redirect?**
`status` is the status of the final URL. Every intermediate hop and its status code is in `redirectChain`.

**Can I export to CSV or Excel?**
Yes. Every dataset can be downloaded as CSV, Excel, JSON, XML or HTML, or read from the API.

**Some sites return 403 to bots. Why?**
A few sites block non-browser clients. The Actor reports the status they return; it does not try to bypass bot protection.

### Related tools by Quillbit Tools

- [Broken Link Checker – crawl a site for 404s](https://apify.com/quillbit-tools/broken-link-crawler)
- [Sitemap URL Extractor](https://apify.com/quillbit-tools/sitemap-url-extractor)
- [Domain Expiry, DNS & SSL Certificate Checker](https://apify.com/quillbit-tools/domain-expiry-dns-ssl-checker)
- [Website Tech Stack Detector](https://apify.com/quillbit-tools/tech-stack-detector)
- [Webpage to Markdown for LLMs & RAG](https://apify.com/quillbit-tools/webpage-to-markdown)
- [RSS & Atom Feed to JSON Reader](https://apify.com/quillbit-tools/rss-feed-to-json)

Questions or a feature request? Open an issue on the Actor's **Issues** tab.

# Actor input Schema

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

URLs to check (one per line). Bare domains get https://.

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

Maximum redirect hops to follow per URL.

## `extractMeta` (type: `boolean`):

Parse title, meta description, canonical and robots meta from HTML pages.

## `concurrency` (type: `integer`):

How many URLs to check in parallel.

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

Timeout for each HTTP request, in seconds.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "urls": [
    "http://example.com",
    "https://apify.com"
  ],
  "maxRedirects": 10,
  "extractMeta": true,
  "concurrency": 10,
  "timeoutSecs": 15
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

All result items in the default dataset.

# 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://example.com",
        "https://apify.com"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("quillbit-tools/bulk-redirect-status-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://example.com",
        "https://apify.com",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("quillbit-tools/bulk-redirect-status-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://example.com",
    "https://apify.com"
  ]
}' |
apify call quillbit-tools/bulk-redirect-status-checker --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,quillbit-tools/bulk-redirect-status-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/5ApYyPokptpPwCxQS/builds/XQMPGeXVs3iaffC9p/openapi.json