# Bulk URL Status Checker & Redirect Audit (`rtworule/bulk-url-health-auditor`) Actor

Check public URLs in bulk for HTTP status, redirect chains, response time, content type, title, canonical URL, robots directives, and safe error diagnostics.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/rtworule/bulk-url-health-auditor.md
- **Developed by:** [Kunteper Koyu](https://apify.com/rtworule) (community)
- **Categories:** SEO tools, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$1.00 / 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/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases.
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.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## 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.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md):

```bash
npm install apify-client
```

In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md):

```bash
pip install apify-client
```

In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md):

````bash
# MacOS / Linux
curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash
# Windows
irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex
```bash

In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md).

If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).


# README

## Bulk URL Status Checker & Redirect Audit

Check up to 1,000 public URLs per run for HTTP status, redirect chains, response time, content type, canonical tags, and robots directives. Use it as a bulk URL status checker, broken-link auditor, uptime diagnostic, or technical SEO input.

### What you get

- final URL and complete redirect chain
- HTTP status, success state, and structured errors
- total and per-hop response time
- content type and declared content length
- page title, canonical URL, and robots meta directives
- one export-ready dataset row per checked URL

### Common use cases

- find 4xx/5xx pages and broken links after a migration
- audit redirect chains, loops, and unexpected destinations
- monitor landing pages, client sites, or partner links
- validate sitemaps and content inventories in bulk
- enrich SEO, QA, and observability dashboards

### Quick start

1. Click **Try for free** or **Run**.
2. Paste public URLs into **URLs**.
3. Keep **Extract HTML signals** on if you need title, canonical, and robots fields.
4. Run the Actor and export the dataset as JSON, CSV, or XLSX.

```json
{
  "urls": ["https://example.com", "https://apify.com"],
  "concurrency": 10,
  "timeoutSeconds": 20,
  "maxRedirects": 10,
  "includeHtmlSignals": true
}
````

### Example result

```json
{
  "inputUrl": "https://example.com",
  "finalUrl": "https://example.com/",
  "statusCode": 200,
  "statusText": "OK",
  "ok": true,
  "redirectCount": 0,
  "redirectChain": [{
    "url": "https://example.com/",
    "statusCode": 200,
    "responseTimeMs": 74
  }],
  "responseTimeMs": 82,
  "contentType": "text/html",
  "title": "Example Domain",
  "checkedAt": "2026-07-06T17:26:53.011Z"
}
```

### Run by API

Set `APIFY_TOKEN` in your environment and keep it out of source control.

#### cURL

```bash
curl -X POST \
  "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/rtworule~bulk-url-health-auditor/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"urls":["https://example.com"],"includeHtmlSignals":true}'
```

#### JavaScript

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('rtworule/bulk-url-health-auditor').call({
  urls: ['https://example.com'],
  includeHtmlSignals: true,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);
```

#### Python

```python
import os
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient(os.environ["APIFY_TOKEN"])
run = client.actor("rtworule/bulk-url-health-auditor").call(run_input={
    "urls": ["https://example.com"],
    "includeHtmlSignals": True,
})
items = client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items
print(items)
```

### Pricing

This Actor uses pay per event. A `url-checked` event costs **$0.001 per stored result**: 100 checked URLs cost $0.10 and 1,000 cost $1.00 in event charges. Apify applies a **$0.01 minimum run charge**. The Actor checks the run's maximum total charge before storing more paid results.

### Integrations and automation

- run on an Apify schedule for daily or weekly URL monitoring
- send failed rows (`ok: false`) to Slack, email, Make, Zapier, or n8n
- export results to Google Sheets, a BI tool, or a data warehouse
- call from CI after a deployment or migration and fail the workflow on bad statuses
- join results to sitemap, CRM, or content-inventory records by `inputUrl`

### FAQ and troubleshooting

**Does it render JavaScript?** No. It performs HTTP diagnostics and reads a bounded static HTML sample. JavaScript-generated canonical or robots tags are not evaluated.

**Why does the result differ from my browser?** CDNs can vary responses by location, headers, cookies, or bot policy. The result reflects the Actor run at `checkedAt`.

**Why was a URL rejected?** Only public HTTP/HTTPS destinations are allowed. Credentials and private, local, reserved, or metadata-service addresses are blocked, including redirect targets.

**Why did a URL time out?** Increase `timeoutSeconds`, lower concurrency for the affected host, or verify the host accepts requests from Apify infrastructure.

**Can I monitor changes?** Yes. Schedule runs and compare `statusCode`, `finalUrl`, `redirectCount`, or `responseTimeMs` by `inputUrl` in your automation.

### Responsible use, limitations, and support

The HTML sample is capped at 128 KiB. DNS is checked before every request, but application checks cannot eliminate every hostile DNS-rebinding scenario; the Actor is designed to run with Apify's limited permissions and platform protections. Only submit URLs you are permitted to access.

For unexpected results on a valid public URL, open an issue from the Actor page and include the run ID, URL, and expected status. Never post credentials or sensitive data.

### More tools from this developer

- [AI Search Readiness / GEO & AEO Auditor](https://apify.com/rtworule/ai-search-readiness-auditor)
- [Website Tech Stack Detector](https://apify.com/rtworule/bulk-website-tech-detector)
- [RSS, Atom & JSON Feed Normalizer](https://apify.com/rtworule/public-feed-normalizer)
- [Greenhouse, Lever & Ashby Jobs Normalizer](https://apify.com/rtworule/public-ats-job-feed-normalizer)

# Actor input Schema

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

Public HTTP or HTTPS URLs to inspect. Private and local network destinations are rejected.

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

Number of URLs checked in parallel.

## `timeoutSeconds` (type: `integer`):

Maximum seconds allowed for each redirect hop.

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

Stop and report an error after this many redirects.

## `includeHtmlSignals` (type: `boolean`):

Read a bounded HTML sample to extract title, canonical URL, and robots directives.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "urls": [
    "https://example.com"
  ],
  "concurrency": 10,
  "timeoutSeconds": 20,
  "maxRedirects": 10,
  "includeHtmlSignals": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

No description

# 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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("rtworule/bulk-url-health-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 = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("rtworule/bulk-url-health-auditor").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call rtworule/bulk-url-health-auditor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=rtworule/bulk-url-health-auditor",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
{
    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "Bulk URL Status Checker & Redirect Audit",
        "description": "Check public URLs in bulk for HTTP status, redirect chains, response time, content type, title, canonical URL, robots directives, and safe error diagnostics.",
        "version": "0.1",
        "x-build-id": "PkVhLKsA55umRDfiI"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/rtworule~bulk-url-health-auditor/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-rtworule-bulk-url-health-auditor",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/rtworule~bulk-url-health-auditor/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-rtworule-bulk-url-health-auditor",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/rtworule~bulk-url-health-auditor/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-rtworule-bulk-url-health-auditor",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "required": [
                    "urls"
                ],
                "properties": {
                    "urls": {
                        "title": "URLs",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "Public HTTP or HTTPS URLs to inspect. Private and local network destinations are rejected.",
                        "default": [
                            "https://example.com"
                        ],
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        }
                    },
                    "concurrency": {
                        "title": "Concurrency",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 50,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Number of URLs checked in parallel.",
                        "default": 10
                    },
                    "timeoutSeconds": {
                        "title": "Timeout per request",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 60,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Maximum seconds allowed for each redirect hop.",
                        "default": 20
                    },
                    "maxRedirects": {
                        "title": "Maximum redirects",
                        "minimum": 0,
                        "maximum": 20,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Stop and report an error after this many redirects.",
                        "default": 10
                    },
                    "includeHtmlSignals": {
                        "title": "Extract HTML signals",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "Read a bounded HTML sample to extract title, canonical URL, and robots directives.",
                        "default": true
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "usageTotalUsd": {
                                "type": "number",
                                "example": 0.00005
                            },
                            "usageUsd": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "number",
                                        "example": 0.00005
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```