# Website Status Monitoring (`serhattsnmz/website-status-monitoring`) Actor

Monitor your websites and get notifications when they are down.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/serhattsnmz/website-status-monitoring.md
- **Developed by:** [Serhat Sönmez](https://apify.com/serhattsnmz) (community)
- **Categories:** Automation, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 19 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 1 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per usage

This Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-usage

## 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

### Website Status Monitoring

The Website Status Monitoring actor sends requests to websites and reports their operational status to you. You can automatically receive an email when the websites are not reachable or every time they are up and running.

### Example Output

```json
[
    {
        "status": true,
        "url": "https://apify.com",
        "status_code": 200,
        "status_str": "OK",
        "elapsed_time": "0.13 seconds",
        "redirect_to": null,
        "error": null
    },
    {
        "status": true,
        "url": "https://google.com",
        "status_code": 301,
        "status_str": "Moved Permanently",
        "elapsed_time": "0.46 seconds",
        "redirect_to": "https://www.google.com/",
        "error": null
    },
    {
        "status": false,
        "url": "http://non-existing-website.com",
        "status_code": null,
        "status_str": null,
        "elapsed_time": null,
        "redirect_to": null,
        "error": "Connection error"
    }
]
```

### Recurring Run

- Click on the three dots on the top right on the actor page,
- Click on the "Schedule Actor" button,
- Select time interval,
- Click on "Create" button.

The actor will run in the time interval you specify.

### Mail Limitations

To prevent abuse, the actor limits the number of email recipients:

- Users on the free plan can only send emails to their own email address associated with their Apify account.
- Paying users can send emails to up to 20 different recipients.

[More information about mail limitation...](https://apify.com/apify/send-mail#limitations)

# Actor input Schema

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

A list of URLs to check status.

## `timeout` (type: `integer`):

Request timeout in seconds.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Specifies proxy servers for the requests

## `sendEmail` (type: `string`):

How do you want to get your notifications?

## `emailAddress` (type: `string`):

Email address for notifications

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "urls": [
    "https://www.google.com"
  ],
  "timeout": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  },
  "sendEmail": "never",
  "emailAddress": ""
}
```

# 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": [
        "https://www.google.com"
    ],
    "timeout": 5,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": false
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("serhattsnmz/website-status-monitoring").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": ["https://www.google.com"],
    "timeout": 5,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": False },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("serhattsnmz/website-status-monitoring").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": [
    "https://www.google.com"
  ],
  "timeout": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}' |
apify call serhattsnmz/website-status-monitoring --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,serhattsnmz/website-status-monitoring"
        }
    }
}
```

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/tSceW4z6ZxCr1hFeK/builds/fS1fpp7VLGKtBWKt8/openapi.json