# URL HTTP Status Checker

> URL HTTP Status Checker is a paid API for AI agents from api.qocgpiywhm.com, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-15).

Probes a URL to return its live HTTP status code, final URL after redirects, redirect chain, content-type header, and whether the response is HTML — without returning the page body.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.qocgpiywhm.com/api/v1/tools/check_url_status?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/url-http-status-checker-fb282a2a
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Q9OlfIUd7by8GzNHV4nqL

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability url-http-status-checker-fb282a2a -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you check whether https://example.com/some-page is actually live right now — I want to know the HTTP status, whether it redirects anywhere, and if it serves HTML?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to quickly verify whether a URL is live, where it ultimately resolves, and what type of content it serves — without needing the actual page content. It is faster and cheaper than full page-fetch or extraction endpoints because it only inspects HTTP-level response metadata. Prefer it for link validation, redirect auditing, uptime spot-checks, and pre-fetch qualification before committing to a heavier scrape.

## Known failure modes

- Network timeout if the target URL is unreachable or very slow
- DNS resolution failure if the domain does not exist
- Returns non-200 status codes (e.g. 404, 500) faithfully — not an error in itself, just the result
- Malformed or non-HTTP URLs may cause a validation error
- Some servers may block bot user-agents, returning 403 or connection refused

## How this service works

Use to probe a URL for live HTTP status, final URL, redirects, content-type, and whether the response is HTML. Does not return the page body.

## Output

Returns the live HTTP status code, the final URL after all redirects, the redirect chain (intermediate URLs), the Content-Type header value, and a boolean indicating whether the response body is HTML. Does not return the page body itself.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/url-http-status-checker-fb282a2a/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.qocgpiywhm.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.qocgpiywhm.com/llms.txt)