# Social Card Bulk QA (`checksmithcats/social-card-bulk-qa`) Actor

Finds Open Graph and common social-preview meta-tag issues in static public HTML. Static pages only.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/checksmithcats/social-card-bulk-qa.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 $0.25 / social card qa 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".

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
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- **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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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Social Card Bulk QA

Bulk-check public pages for Open Graph, common social-preview meta-tag, and linked manifest basics.

This Actor is for teams that publish many pages and need a quick evidence report before a launch, migration, campaign, or CMS template change. It reads public static HTML and reports machine-readable issues in the meta tags that commonly control link previews in social feeds, chat apps, and content previews.

### What it checks

- Input from `urls`, `sitemapUrl`, or public `csvUrl`
- Page fetch status for every sampled URL
- Missing Open Graph core tags: `og:title`, `og:type`, `og:image`, `og:url`
- Duplicate conflicting Open Graph and `twitter:*` values
- Relative, non-http, or mismatched `og:url`, `og:image`, and `twitter:image`
- Missing `og:description`
- Missing `og:image:alt` when `og:image` is present
- Invalid `og:image:width` / `og:image:height` values
- Missing or unusual `twitter:card`
- Missing X/Twitter title or image fallback when neither `twitter:*` nor Open Graph provides one
- Repeated `og:title`, `og:image`, or `og:url` across sampled pages
- Linked web app manifest presence, fetchability, parseable JSON, basic name/start URL/icon/theme-color fields
- `apple-touch-icon` link presence

### Outputs

- Dataset rows: one row per finding
- `REPORT.json`: full structured report and evidence pack
- `REPORT.html`: readable report
- `REPORT.md`: Markdown report

### Boundaries

This is an informational diagnostic tool for public pages. It does not render a real preview, reproduce any social platform debugger, refresh platform caches, promise click-through rate, promise traffic, test installability or offline behavior, or guarantee how Facebook, X, LinkedIn, Slack, Discord, browsers, or any other platform will display or handle a shared URL.

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

`twitter:*` checks are conventional static tag-shape diagnostics only. At implementation time, the current X documentation index did not expose the legacy Cards specification page, so this Actor avoids platform-guarantee language for X cards.

### Billing

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

- Open Graph protocol: https://ogp.me/
- Meta sharing for webmasters: https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/sharing/webmasters
- Meta sharing best practices: https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/sharing/best-practices
- Web app manifest overview: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive\_web\_apps/Manifest

### Related tools

- Canonical/Hreflang Bulk QA - Use when social-card pages may also have canonical or hreflang conflicts.
- Security Headers Bulk QA - Use when launch QA should include both metadata and response-header basics.
- Checksmith CI - Use earlier in the pull request when manifest and public files are still local.

# 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, loc, or canonical.

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

Maximum number of extracted URLs to inspect.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "urls": [
    "https://example.com/blog/launch",
    "https://example.com/product/anvil"
  ],
  "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://example.com/blog/launch",
        "https://example.com/product/anvil"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("checksmithcats/social-card-bulk-qa").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://example.com/blog/launch",
        "https://example.com/product/anvil",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("checksmithcats/social-card-bulk-qa").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://example.com/blog/launch",
    "https://example.com/product/anvil"
  ]
}' |
apify call checksmithcats/social-card-bulk-qa --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/bF0Ub0jn3fcjHtCub/builds/GXKzEdGHU0zYzpmmi/openapi.json