Check which websites in a list still work
Each website marked live, redirected, parked or dead, with the final address and the date of the check.
- You start it: When you start it
What it does
The task
Open the sheet sheet url, and read the websites in column column. Open each website and record one status: Live, Redirects (with the final address), Parked or for sale, Error (with the code), or Does not load. For each live site, record the page title and the year in the footer. Write the results in new columns with the date of the check. Do not change the original column, and do not fill in any forms.
- It works in Google Sheets and any website, in the workspace you pick, and signs in with passwords from your Cuiar vault.
- It runs once, when you start it.
What you give it
| Blank | What to give | Example |
|---|---|---|
| sheet url | The Google Sheet with the websites | https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ws3gKt5Jm/edit |
| column | The column letter with the websites | D |
What you get back
An example run with the example values above. Your run uses your own data.
Websites checked: 1,240 (column D), 29 October 2026
Live: 1,018
Redirects: 133 (for example, kestrelanalytics.co.uk to kestrel.io)
Parked or for sale: 41
Error: 22 (404: 9, 500: 6, certificate error: 7)
Does not load: 26
Live sites with a footer year of 2022 or older: 97
New columns: Status, Final URL, Title, Footer year, Checked on
Run it in Cuiar
- 01
Open it
Click Use in Cuiar on this page. The side panel opens with the task in the composer.
- 02
Fill in 2 blanks
Type sheet url and column. Tab moves to the next blank.
- 03
Run it
Run sends it to the agent. Follow each step in the panel, and stop it at any time.
From the terminal
cuiar exec "Open the sheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ws3gKt5Jm/edit, and read the websites in column D. Open each website and record one status: Live, Redirects (with the final address), Parked or for sale, Error (with the code), or Does not load. For each live site, record the page title and the year in the footer. Write the results in new columns with the date of the check. Do not change the original column, and do not fill in any forms."Run it from your AI agent
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other MCP clients reach Cuiar at https://mcp.cuiar.com/mcp. Add the server one time, then ask for the task in plain words, or call run_task yourself.
1. Add Cuiar to Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http cuiar https://mcp.cuiar.com/mcp2. Ask your agent
Use the Cuiar tool run_task to run my "Check which websites in a list still work" template with sheet url = https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ws3gKt5Jm/edit; column = D.Setup for other agents: AI agents.
The tool call
{
"name": "run_task",
"arguments": {
"task": "Open the sheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ws3gKt5Jm/edit, and read the websites in column D. Open each website and record one status: Live, Redirects (with the final address), Parked or for sale, Error (with the code), or Does not load. For each live site, record the page title and the year in the footer. Write the results in new columns with the date of the check. Do not change the original column, and do not fill in any forms."
}
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