Public Cookie Consent Evidence Agent

Extract public cookie consent banner evidence from static HTML pages.

This Actor is intentionally narrow. It records what can be seen in the public page source: cookie banner text, CMP provider hints, accept/reject/manage actions, privacy-choice links, cookie category wording, and stable hashes for change detection.

It does not render JavaScript, click consent buttons, submit forms, inspect browser cookies, audit Set-Cookie attributes, or provide legal compliance advice.

Input Example

{
  "pageUrls": ["https://www.atlassian.com/"],
  "focusTerms": ["reject", "preferences"],
  "requestTimeoutSecs": 20
}

Output Highlights

• status
• inputUrl, finalUrl, and siteOriginUrl
• cookieSurfaceType
• cmpProviders
• bannerEvidence
• consentActions
• privacyPolicyLinks
• cookieCategorySignals
• matchedFocusTerms
• evidenceSnippets and evidenceUrls
• cookieConsentScore, confidenceScore, and completenessScore
• cookieConsentHash, previousCookieConsentHash, and changeStatus
• billableEventName

Useful-Result Pricing

This Actor is intended for pay-per-event pricing:

• apify-actor-start: charged once per run.
• useful-cookie-consent-evidence-result: charged only for useful, new or changed cookie consent evidence records.

Non-billable records include unsafe URLs, failed fetches, unchanged hashes, focus misses, privacy-policy-only pages, CMP-script-only pages, generic landing pages, lead-form marketing checkbox pages, security-header pages, and pages without visible cookie/banner/action evidence.

Do not configure apify-default-dataset-item.

URL Safety

The Actor accepts only public HTTP/HTTPS pages. It rejects private-network and local addresses, .local domains, credentials, query parameters, fragments, path parameters, sensitive account/token paths, cross-site redirects, non-HTML responses, and pages larger than 3 MB.

Change Detection

Pass prior records through previousCookieConsentRecords. If the same page returns the same cookieConsentHash, the Actor writes an unchanged record without charging useful-cookie-consent-evidence-result.