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: json { "url": "https://example.com", "max_urls": 10, "follow_links": true, "mode": "auto" } | Parameter | Type | Description | |--------------|---------|-----------------------------------------------------| | url | String | The target URL or domain (required) | | max_urls | Integer | Maximum number of pages to analyze (default: 5) | | follow_links | Boolean | Whether to follow links in the crawl (default: false) | | mode | String | "sitemap", "crawl", or "auto" (default: "auto") | --- ## 📤 Output Format The actor returns structured JSON output with two key sections: ### 1️⃣ URL Details Each scanned URL along with its status code. json { "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. json { "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: sh 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 💡 Content Management → Find outdated or broken content.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 ---