API docs v1
POST /v1/page-audit

Audit one or more pages

scope write:audit cost 3 RU · 1 credit rate-limit 10/minute · key idempotent required

Audit public pages against SEO and AEO best practices and return, per page, an overall score plus concrete recommendations.

Provide exactly one of url (a single page), urls (several), or sitemap (a sitemap.xml or bare domain whose first pages are audited). Domain-level checks (robots.txt, sitemap, /llms.txt, SSL) are fetched once per domain and reused across that domain's pages.

Per-page checks include <title> / meta description length, a single <h1>, Schema.org JSON-LD, canonical, Open Graph + Twitter cards, image alt-text, indexability (noindex), and content freshness.

Pricing: 1 credit per page that is successfully audited, so a batch costs up to one credit per URL. x-rankprompt-cost and ?dry_run=true report the single-page cost; multiply by the number of URLs you send. A page that cannot be fetched is not charged. credits_charged reports the total spent. Pass a request_id (unique per intended billable audit) to make a retried per-URL charge idempotent; omit it and every call is charged.

Security: only https URLs on public hosts are accepted; internal hosts, loopback and cloud-metadata addresses are rejected, including on redirects.

Rate limited more tightly than most endpoints; the exact limit is published as x-rankprompt-rate-limit on this operation.

Query parameters

  • dry_run boolean optional

    Preview the call without executing it. Runs auth, scope, eligibility and body validation, then returns 200 with a dry_run object reporting the request-unit and credit cost plus a non-consuming quota snapshot. Nothing is debited, reserved, dispatched or mutated. An invalid body still returns 422.

    default: false

Header parameters

Request body

application/json required
Type: PageAuditRequest
  • limit integer

    Max pages to audit (cap when expanding a sitemap, and the hard ceiling for urls).

    min: 1 · max: 20 · default: `10`

  • request_id string (nullable) nullable

    Optional id, unique per intended billable audit, combined with each URL to make a retried per-URL charge idempotent. Omit it and every call is charged.

  • sitemap string (nullable) nullable

    A sitemap.xml URL (or a bare domain, resolved to /sitemap.xml) whose first pages are audited. Domain-level checks (robots.txt, sitemap, /llms.txt, SSL) run once and are reused across pages.

  • url string (nullable) nullable

    A single public https page URL to audit.

  • urls array of string (nullable) nullable

    Several public https page URLs to audit (1 credit each).

Example payload 
{
  "request_id": "ci-run-918273",
  "urls": [
    "https://example.com",
    "https://example.com/pricing"
  ]
}

Responses

Audit one or more pages application/json
Type: PageAuditResult
  • credits_charged integer required

    Credits actually spent (one per successfully audited page).

    min: 0

  • results array of PageAuditItem required

    Per-URL outcomes, in request order.

  • object string

    default: `page_audit`

  • skipped_urls integer

    How many supplied URLs were not audited.

    min: 0 · default: `0`

  • truncated boolean

    True when more URLs were supplied (or found in the sitemap) than were audited because of limit or the batch cap; results holds the first ones in request order.

    default: `false`

Example response 
{
  "credits_charged": 1,
  "object": "page_audit",
  "results": [
    {
      "checks_passed": 9,
      "checks_total": 11,
      "final_url": "https://example.com/pricing",
      "ok": true,
      "passed": true,
      "recommendations": [
        {
          "category": "meta",
          "message": "Title is 18 characters; aim for 50-60 so it is not truncated in search results.",
          "severity": "warning"
        }
      ],
      "score": 82,
      "url": "https://example.com/pricing"
    }
  ]
}
Request validation failed application/json
Type: ApiError
  • error object required
    Show fields
    • code string required

      Stable machine-readable error code from the catalog.

    • message string required

      Human-readable description suitable for logging.

    • details object

      Optional, code-specific context (e.g. errors array for validation_error, retry_after for service_unavailable). Shape depends on error.code; treat as opaque otherwise.

      Show fields

      Empty object (no properties).

  • request_id string

    Server-generated correlation id for the request. Mirrors the X-Correlation-ID response header. Include this when contacting support.

    format: `uuid`

Example response 
{
  "error": {
    "code": "validation_error",
    "message": "Request validation failed"
  },
  "request_id": "9f6c4e8a-1d3b-4c8b-9f1e-7a3b1c2d3e4f"
}
Missing or invalid credentials application/json
Type: ApiError
  • error object required
    Show fields
    • code string required

      Stable machine-readable error code from the catalog.

    • message string required

      Human-readable description suitable for logging.

    • details object

      Optional, code-specific context (e.g. errors array for validation_error, retry_after for service_unavailable). Shape depends on error.code; treat as opaque otherwise.

      Show fields

      Empty object (no properties).

  • request_id string

    Server-generated correlation id for the request. Mirrors the X-Correlation-ID response header. Include this when contacting support.

    format: `uuid`

Example response 
{
  "error": {
    "code": "unauthorized",
    "message": "Missing or invalid credentials"
  },
  "request_id": "9f6c4e8a-1d3b-4c8b-9f1e-7a3b1c2d3e4f"
}
Not enough credits to complete this operation application/json
Type: ApiError
  • error object required
    Show fields
    • code string required

      Stable machine-readable error code from the catalog.

    • message string required

      Human-readable description suitable for logging.

    • details object

      Optional, code-specific context (e.g. errors array for validation_error, retry_after for service_unavailable). Shape depends on error.code; treat as opaque otherwise.

      Show fields

      Empty object (no properties).

  • request_id string

    Server-generated correlation id for the request. Mirrors the X-Correlation-ID response header. Include this when contacting support.

    format: `uuid`

Example response 
{
  "error": {
    "code": "insufficient_credits",
    "message": "Not enough credits to complete this operation"
  },
  "request_id": "9f6c4e8a-1d3b-4c8b-9f1e-7a3b1c2d3e4f"
}
You do not have permission to access this resource application/json
Type: ApiError
  • error object required
    Show fields
    • code string required

      Stable machine-readable error code from the catalog.

    • message string required

      Human-readable description suitable for logging.

    • details object

      Optional, code-specific context (e.g. errors array for validation_error, retry_after for service_unavailable). Shape depends on error.code; treat as opaque otherwise.

      Show fields

      Empty object (no properties).

  • request_id string

    Server-generated correlation id for the request. Mirrors the X-Correlation-ID response header. Include this when contacting support.

    format: `uuid`

Example response 
{
  "error": {
    "code": "forbidden",
    "message": "You do not have permission to access this resource"
  },
  "request_id": "9f6c4e8a-1d3b-4c8b-9f1e-7a3b1c2d3e4f"
}
Resource conflict application/json
Type: ApiError
  • error object required
    Show fields
    • code string required

      Stable machine-readable error code from the catalog.

    • message string required

      Human-readable description suitable for logging.

    • details object

      Optional, code-specific context (e.g. errors array for validation_error, retry_after for service_unavailable). Shape depends on error.code; treat as opaque otherwise.

      Show fields

      Empty object (no properties).

  • request_id string

    Server-generated correlation id for the request. Mirrors the X-Correlation-ID response header. Include this when contacting support.

    format: `uuid`

Example response 
{
  "error": {
    "code": "conflict",
    "message": "Resource conflict"
  },
  "request_id": "9f6c4e8a-1d3b-4c8b-9f1e-7a3b1c2d3e4f"
}
Request body did not match the expected schema application/json
Type: ApiError
  • error object required
    Show fields
    • code string required

      Stable machine-readable error code from the catalog.

    • message string required

      Human-readable description suitable for logging.

    • details object

      Optional, code-specific context (e.g. errors array for validation_error, retry_after for service_unavailable). Shape depends on error.code; treat as opaque otherwise.

      Show fields

      Empty object (no properties).

  • request_id string

    Server-generated correlation id for the request. Mirrors the X-Correlation-ID response header. Include this when contacting support.

    format: `uuid`

Example response 
{
  "error": {
    "code": "body_validation_error",
    "message": "Request body did not match the expected schema"
  },
  "request_id": "9f6c4e8a-1d3b-4c8b-9f1e-7a3b1c2d3e4f"
}
Per-minute rate limit exceeded application/json
Type: ApiError
  • error object required
    Show fields
    • code string required

      Stable machine-readable error code from the catalog.

    • message string required

      Human-readable description suitable for logging.

    • details object

      Optional, code-specific context (e.g. errors array for validation_error, retry_after for service_unavailable). Shape depends on error.code; treat as opaque otherwise.

      Show fields

      Empty object (no properties).

  • request_id string

    Server-generated correlation id for the request. Mirrors the X-Correlation-ID response header. Include this when contacting support.

    format: `uuid`

Example response 
{
  "error": {
    "code": "rate_limit_exceeded",
    "message": "Per-minute rate limit exceeded"
  },
  "request_id": "9f6c4e8a-1d3b-4c8b-9f1e-7a3b1c2d3e4f"
}
An unexpected error occurred application/json
Type: ApiError
  • error object required
    Show fields
    • code string required

      Stable machine-readable error code from the catalog.

    • message string required

      Human-readable description suitable for logging.

    • details object

      Optional, code-specific context (e.g. errors array for validation_error, retry_after for service_unavailable). Shape depends on error.code; treat as opaque otherwise.

      Show fields

      Empty object (no properties).

  • request_id string

    Server-generated correlation id for the request. Mirrors the X-Correlation-ID response header. Include this when contacting support.

    format: `uuid`

Example response 
{
  "error": {
    "code": "internal_error",
    "message": "An unexpected error occurred"
  },
  "request_id": "9f6c4e8a-1d3b-4c8b-9f1e-7a3b1c2d3e4f"
}
Service temporarily unavailable, please retry application/json
Type: ApiError
  • error object required
    Show fields
    • code string required

      Stable machine-readable error code from the catalog.

    • message string required

      Human-readable description suitable for logging.

    • details object

      Optional, code-specific context (e.g. errors array for validation_error, retry_after for service_unavailable). Shape depends on error.code; treat as opaque otherwise.

      Show fields

      Empty object (no properties).

  • request_id string

    Server-generated correlation id for the request. Mirrors the X-Correlation-ID response header. Include this when contacting support.

    format: `uuid`

Example response 
{
  "error": {
    "code": "service_unavailable",
    "message": "Service temporarily unavailable, please retry"
  },
  "request_id": "9f6c4e8a-1d3b-4c8b-9f1e-7a3b1c2d3e4f"
}