Bulk URL Status Checker: HTTP Codes, Redirects, 404s

Bulk URL status checker: HTTP status, redirects and broken links for a list of URLs

statusCode	finalStatusCode	redirectCount	isHttpsRedirect	responseTimeMs	url	finalUrl
200	200	0	false	134	https://apify.com	https://apify.com
301	200	1	true	704	http://apify.com	https://apify.com/
404	404	0	false	417	https://apify.com/this-page-does-not-exist-404	https://apify.com/this-page-does-not-exist-404

(real output of the prefilled example on 2026-11-04, shortened to 7 of the columns; each row also has the full redirectChain)

For SEO teams and web developers who need to verify a long list of URLs. Get the HTTP status, the full redirect chain, the final URL and the response time for each — for site migrations (verify your 301 map), SEO audits and broken-link checks.

Try it: press Start with the prefilled example (3 apify.com URLs). You get the 3 rows above in about 4 seconds, charged as 3 checked URLs (less than a tenth of a cent). Clear the URL list and press Start for a free demo on 5 sample URLs (apify.com and python.org, with and without https; not charged).

Price: from $0.21 per 1,000 checked URLs on Apify's paid plans (the price shown on this page); $0.30 per 1,000 on the free plan. Rows that never reach the network (invalid_url, blocked_private_address) are not charged.

Use cases

• Verify a 301 redirect map after a migration

• Find broken links (404, DNS failures, timeouts) in a URL list or sitemap export

• Detect redirect chains and loops, and http-to-https redirects

• Checks only the URLs you provide — it does not crawl pages or follow links

• Redirects are followed manually (up to 10) and every hop is recorded: redirectChain

• Tries HEAD first and falls back to GET when the server answers 405/501

• DNS failures, timeouts and connection errors are reported as error (status null) instead of failing the run

• Input as a list, or from another Actor's dataset (choose the URL field)

• Polite by design: max 2 connections per host, at least 0.2 s between requests to the same host, up to 100,000 URLs per run

• Status counts are saved as SUMMARY in the key-value store

• Rows that never reach the network (invalid_url, blocked_private_address) are not charged. The free demo (empty URL list) is not charged either

• Safe by design: URLs that resolve to internal addresses (localhost, private ranges, link-local such as 169.254.169.254, IPv6 loopback/unique-local) are never contacted, including redirect targets — reported as blocked_private_address

Input

{ "urls": ["https://example.com/old-page", "http://example.com"], "followRedirects": true, "timeoutSecs": 15, "concurrency": 5 }

Or { "datasetId": "<dataset id>", "urlField": "url" }.

Output

{
  "url": "http://example.com/old", "finalUrl": "https://example.com/new", "statusCode": 301, "finalStatusCode": 200,
  "ok": true, "redirectCount": 2,
  "redirectChain": [{"url": "http://example.com/old", "status": 301}, {"url": "https://example.com/old", "status": 301}, {"url": "https://example.com/new", "status": 200}],
  "isHttpsRedirect": true, "responseTimeMs": 412, "contentType": "text/html; charset=utf-8", "contentLength": null,
  "error": null, "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T09:00:00+00:00"
}

ok is true when the final status is 2xx. For unreachable URLs statusCode and finalStatusCode are null and error is e.g. dns_failure, timeout, too_many_redirects, redirect_loop, invalid_url or blocked_private_address.

Notes

Some sites block automated requests or answer HEAD/GET differently than a browser; results reflect what a plain HTTP client sees. Set a custom userAgent if needed, and only check URLs you are allowed to request.

Pricing

Event	Free plan	Paid plans (Store discount tiers Bronze / Silver / Gold)
Checked URL (status, redirect chain and timing returned)	$0.30 per 1,000	$0.27 / $0.24 / $0.21 per 1,000

The price on this page ("from $0.21") is the Gold tier price. Failed runs and the demo are free. On the Apify Free plan, the $5 of monthly platform credit covers about 16,000 URLs a month — enough to try it on real data.

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