# Event/LocalBusiness Preflight (`checksmithcats/event-localbusiness-preflight`) Actor

Inspects public Event and LocalBusiness pages for JSON-LD completeness, format, duplicate-conflict, and visible-page consistency signals. Public pages only.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/checksmithcats/event-localbusiness-preflight.md
- **Developed by:** [Checksmith Cats](https://apify.com/checksmithcats) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.40 / event/localbusiness report generated

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
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- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Event/LocalBusiness Preflight

Inspects Event and LocalBusiness public pages for JSON-LD shape and visible-page consistency signals.

This Actor does not reproduce Google's Rich Results Test and does not guarantee any Google decision. It lists machine-readable missing-field, invalid-format, visible-page consistency, type-absence, and duplicate-conflict signals across many public URLs.

### What it checks

- Input from `urls`, `sitemapUrl`, or public `csvUrl`
- Optional `targetTypes`: `Event`, `LocalBusiness`
- Default type mode: check every supported type detected on each reachable page
- Required and recommended property signals from Google Event and LocalBusiness structured-data docs
- Event signals such as `name`, `startDate`, `location`, date/status/attendance-mode formats, ticket offer fields, and visible title/date/location clues
- LocalBusiness signals such as `name`, `address`, `telephone`, `url`, opening-hours format, geo precision, and visible NAP consistency
- `sd.type_absent` when an explicitly selected type is not found
- `sd.multiple_conflicting` when duplicate same-type nodes disagree on key values

### Findings

Each finding includes:

- `severity`
- `confidence`
- `evidence`
- `caveat`
- source URL with query strings redacted
- Google documentation references where applicable

Primary finding IDs include:

- `sd.missing_required.<type>.<field>`
- `sd.missing_recommended.<type>.<field>`
- `sd.invalid_format.<field>`
- `sd.type_absent`
- `sd.multiple_conflicting`

### Boundaries

This is an informational diagnostic tool for public pages. It does not certify structured data, reproduce Google validation, promise rich-result display, promise eligibility, improve rankings, promise indexing, or represent Google Search Console.

The scanner inspects static HTML JSON-LD. It does not render JavaScript and does not evaluate private, login-gated, CAPTCHA-gated, or non-public pages.

Checksmith Cats is not affiliated with Google.

### Billing note

Pay-per-event billing is based on reachable URLs only. Unreachable pages are reported as findings, but they are not counted as checked URLs.

### References

- Event structured data: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/event
- Local Business structured data: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/local-business
- Rich Results Test: https://search.google.com/test/rich-results

### Related tools

- Local Business NAP Consistency QA - Use when the source is a local-business dataset and NAP consistency is the main risk.
- Structured Data Bulk QA - Use when the site needs broad checks for Product, Article, FAQPage, BreadcrumbList, Recipe, or VideoObject markup.
- Social Card / Open Graph Bulk QA - Use when event or venue pages also need share-preview metadata checks.

# Actor input Schema

## `urls` (type: `array`):

Public page URLs to check.

## `sitemapUrl` (type: `string`):

Optional public sitemap URL containing pages to sample.

## `csvUrl` (type: `string`):

Optional public CSV URL with a URL column such as url, pageUrl, link, href, or loc.

## `targetTypes` (type: `array`):

Optional subset to check. Leave empty to check all supported types detected on each page.

## `sampleLimit` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of extracted URLs to inspect.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "urls": [
    "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/Ge9l6paMLvccf5JHh/records/batch4-event-localbusiness.html?signature=1B8Cfmg3F08nO1TwvH8dU"
  ],
  "targetTypes": [],
  "sampleLimit": 25
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

## `report` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "urls": [
        "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/Ge9l6paMLvccf5JHh/records/batch4-event-localbusiness.html?signature=1B8Cfmg3F08nO1TwvH8dU"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("checksmithcats/event-localbusiness-preflight").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "urls": ["https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/Ge9l6paMLvccf5JHh/records/batch4-event-localbusiness.html?signature=1B8Cfmg3F08nO1TwvH8dU"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("checksmithcats/event-localbusiness-preflight").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "urls": [
    "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/Ge9l6paMLvccf5JHh/records/batch4-event-localbusiness.html?signature=1B8Cfmg3F08nO1TwvH8dU"
  ]
}' |
apify call checksmithcats/event-localbusiness-preflight --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=checksmithcats/event-localbusiness-preflight",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/G9usiz1JqCnVA2KRc/builds/2cZuchVeQhaTHHo0K/openapi.json