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Apify HTTPS Status Checker 🚀

An Apify Actor that crawls websites and retrieves their HTTP status codes to help monitor site availability, detect broken links, and analyze redirects.

📌 Features

✅ Extracts URLs from sitemaps if available.
✅ Crawls websites when no sitemap is found to collect URLs.
✅ Retrieves HTTP status codes for each discovered URL.
✅ Detects broken links (404 errors) and highlights them.
✅ Provides structured JSON output with status summaries.
✅ Ideal for SEO audits, website monitoring, and performance analysis.

⚙️ Input Parameters

The actor accepts the following input in JSON format:

{
"url":"https://example.com",
"max_urls":10,
"follow_links":true,
"mode":"auto"
}

📤 Output Format

The actor returns structured JSON output with two key sections:

1️⃣ URL Details

Each scanned URL along with its status code.

{
"details":[
{"url":"https://example.com","status":200},
{"url":"https://example.com/missing-page","status":404}
]
}

2️⃣ Status Code Summary

Aggregates occurrences of each HTTP status code.

{
"overview":[
{"Status Code":200,"Count":10},
{"Status Code":404,"Count":2}
]
}

🚀 How to Run

Option 1: Using Apify Console

1. Go to the Apify Actor Page.
2. Click Run and provide the input JSON.
3. Retrieve results from the Dataset Storage.

Option 2: API Execution (cURL)

Run the actor directly via API:

cat> input.json <<'EOF'
{
 "url": "https://example.com",
 "max_urls": 10,
 "follow_links": true,
 "mode": "auto"
}
EOF
curl"https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/YOUR_ACTOR_ID/runs?token=$API_TOKEN"\
-X POST \
-d @input.json \
-H'Content-Type: application/json'

🔍 Example Use Cases

💡 SEO Audits → Identify broken links and redirects.
💡 Website Monitoring → Track site uptime & status changes.
💡 Data Validation → Ensure external links are working.
💡 Content Management → Find outdated or broken content.

📚 Resources

• Apify Docs
• HTTP Status Codes Reference

🛠️ Author & Support

Created by Antonio Blago antonioblago.de🛠️
💬 Need help? Reach out via Apify Community