Sitemap URL Health Checker (via Apify MCP)

Sitemap URL Health Checker: MCP server (via Apify)

Check every URL listed in a website's XML sitemap for 404s, server errors, redirects, redirect chains, https-to-http downgrades and X-Robots-Tag: noindex headers, from any MCP client.

Disclosure: we built and maintain the Apify Actor lineagersiui/sitemap-url-health-checker and earn its pay-per-event fees. This listing is not affiliated with or endorsed by Apify or the Model Context Protocol project. The MCP endpoint is Apify's hosted MCP server (mcp.apify.com), run by Apify, not by us. This listing only preselects our Actor as the single tool. Drafted with AI tools under the author's direction.

Registry name: io.github.lineagersiui-boop/sitemap-url-health-checker

What it does

• Finds the sitemap from a site address (via robots.txt or /sitemap.xml), or takes direct sitemap, sitemap-index, .xml.gz or plain-text list URLs.
• Requests each listed URL and reports its status, redirects, final URL and flags.
• Checks only URLs listed in the sitemap. It does not crawl links inside pages.

Requirements

• Your own Apify account and API token. Get the token in Apify Console → Settings → API & Integrations. Runs are billed to your Apify account, not ours.
• Permission to check the site. The Actor refuses non-demo runs unless confirmPermission is true.

Pricing

• $0.0005 per URL checked (one event per URL that returns an HTTP status). 1,000 URLs cost $0.50, plus Apify platform usage.
• Not billed: URLs skipped by robots.txt, timeouts and network errors.
• Free demo: run with empty input to check 20 URLs of apify.com, not billed.

Connect

Endpoint (Streamable HTTP):

https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=lineagersiui/sitemap-url-health-checker

The tools parameter makes Apify's server load only this Actor. Without it, Apify's server loads its default tool set instead.

Bearer token (most clients):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sitemap-url-health-checker": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=lineagersiui/sitemap-url-health-checker",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer <YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" }
    }
  }
}

Apify's server also supports OAuth sign-in, without a token in the config, for clients that support it. See Apify's MCP documentation.

Local stdio, for clients without remote support. This runs Apify's own open-source package, not ours:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sitemap-url-health-checker": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@apify/actors-mcp-server", "--tools", "lineagersiui/sitemap-url-health-checker"],
      "env": { "APIFY_TOKEN": "<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" }
    }
  }
}

Input

Field	Type	Notes
siteUrls	array of strings	Site addresses, e.g. example.com. Up to 10
sitemapUrls	array of strings	Direct sitemap, sitemap-index, .xml.gz or plain-text list URLs. Up to 10
confirmPermission	boolean	Default false. Must be true for non-demo runs
maxUrls	integer	Default 500, range 1 to 5,000. Hard cap per run
onlyProblems	boolean	Default false. Leaves out 2xx URLs with no redirect (they are still billed)
timeLimitSecs	integer	Default 1,500, range 60 to 3,600. No new checks start after this

Output

One dataset item per URL: url, status, flags, redirects, redirectStatuses, finalUrl, lastmod, sitemap. The key-value store record SUMMARY holds the counts: urlsFound, checked, billed, problems, blockedByRobots, errors.

Flag	Meaning
not_found, client_error, server_error	404/410, another 4xx, or 5xx
redirected, redirect_chain, too_many_redirects	One redirect, more than one, or more than 5
https_downgrade	An https URL redirects to http
noindex_header	Sends X-Robots-Tag: noindex
blocked_by_robots	Disallowed by robots.txt; skipped, not billed
timeout, network_error, blocked_private_address	Couldn't be checked; not billed
ok	2xx, no redirect

Example prompts

• "Check the sitemap of example.com for broken links and redirects. I own the site."
• "Which URLs in https://example.com/sitemap_index.xml return 404 or redirect after our migration?"
• "Which pages in our sitemap send a noindex header?"

Support

Open an issue in this repository. The Actor is maintained by its author on the Apify Store.

License

This README and server.json are MIT-licensed. The Actor and Apify's MCP server have their own terms.