Bulk URL Status Checker — Broken Links, Redirects & SSL

Audit thousands of URLs in one run. Feed the Actor any list of links and it reports each one's HTTP status, whether it's broken, the full redirect chain, response time, content type, page title, and SSL certificate expiry — over plain HTTP, no browser and no login.

Great for broken-link audits, redirect/migration QA, uptime spot-checks, sitemap validation, and SSL-expiry monitoring.

What you get per URL

Field	Notes
statusCode	Final HTTP status (200, 301, 404, 410, 500, …).
ok / broken / blocked	ok = 2xx/3xx; broken = genuinely dead (404/410/5xx); blocked = access-restricted (401/403/429, usually bot-protection — try a proxy). Keeps blocks from being mistaken for dead links.
redirectChain	Every hop: {url, status, location} — see exactly where a link lands.
redirectCount	Number of redirects followed.
finalUrl	Where the URL ended up after all redirects.
responseTimeMs	End-to-end time for the whole chain.
contentType, contentLength, server	From the final response headers.
title	<title> of successful HTML pages (toggle off for pure speed).
ssl	For https: { issuer, validTo, daysToExpiry, authorized } — catch expiring certs.
error	Classified failure: dns-error, timeout, connection-refused, ssl-error, too-many-redirects, …

Why it's more than a status checker

Besides the status code it traces the complete redirect path (not just the final landing), measures latency, grabs the page title so a report is human-readable, and checks the TLS certificate expiry — so one run doubles as a broken-link audit and an SSL-expiry watch.

Input

{
  "urls": ["https://apify.com", "https://apify.com/this-page-does-not-exist"],
  "checkSsl": true,
  "fetchTitle": true,
  "maxConcurrency": 20
}

• urls — links to check, one per line. (Or use startUrls for a request list.)
• maxRedirects — hops to trace before giving up (default 10).
• fetchTitle — read <title> of HTML pages (default on; turn off for max speed).
• checkSsl — report certificate expiry for https URLs (default on).
• maxConcurrency — URLs checked in parallel (default 20).
• maxItems — cap total URLs (0 = all).
• proxyConfiguration — optional; enable for reliable access at scale.

Output (one row per URL)

{
  "input": "https://apify.com/this-page-does-not-exist",
  "url": "https://apify.com/this-page-does-not-exist",
  "statusCode": 404,
  "ok": false,
  "broken": true,
  "redirectCount": 0,
  "finalUrl": "https://apify.com/this-page-does-not-exist",
  "responseTimeMs": 220,
  "contentType": "text/html; charset=utf-8",
  "title": "Page not found",
  "ssl": { "issuer": "Google Trust Services", "daysToExpiry": 61, "authorized": true },
  "error": null
}

Pricing

Pay per URL checked. No monthly fee — you only pay for what you run.

FAQ

Do I need an account or API key? No. The Actor works over plain HTTP with no login or API key — just supply your list of URLs.

How many URLs can I check per run? Thousands in a single run. maxItems caps the total (0 = all) and maxConcurrency controls how many URLs are checked in parallel (default 20).

Is bulk URL checking legal? The Actor only reads the HTTP response of the URLs you supply. You are responsible for having the right to audit those targets and for respecting each site's terms and rate limits.

What's the output format? A JSON dataset with one row per URL (status, broken/blocked flags, redirect chain, response time, title, SSL details). Export as JSON, CSV, or Excel from the Apify Console or API.

Can I filter or limit results? Yes. Use maxItems, maxConcurrency, and maxRedirects, and toggle checkSsl and fetchTitle on or off to trade detail for speed.

Related Actors

Combine this with other web-diagnostics and archival tools:

• Domain Inspector — WHOIS/RDAP, DNS, and SSL details for any domain.
• Wayback Machine Scraper — list archived snapshots of a URL or domain.
• Bulk Image Downloader — fetch and store images at scale from a URL list.
• Website Content Crawler — crawl a site into clean text for analysis or RAG.

Notes

Checks only the HTTP response of URLs you supply. You are responsible for having the right to audit the target URLs.