# Check if a website is down — URL Operations

Botize method — `site_inspector.site_down` (action).

Given a URL, it checks whether the corresponding website is down or not. It performs an automated check of the website's availability.

- This step always answers: the Site is down tag is set to yes or no and the task carries on either way. To continue only when the site is down, add the rule “Site is down = yes” on the next step. If your task predates this change, that rule is already in place — we added it so the task would keep behaving as before.

This is an action: it runs as a step of a task. Several can be chained.

## Fields you set

The field's internal name, its type and the values it accepts. These fields accept `{{...}}` tags from earlier steps.

- `site_url` *(string)* — Site URL
- `user` *(string)* — User authentication (optional)
- `password` *(string)* — Password authentication (optional)

## Output variables

Data this step makes available. Reference them in later steps with the double-brace tag.

- `{{down}}` *(boolean)* — Site is down
- `{{http_code}}` *(int)* — Error HTTP Code

## This app

Every trigger and action for URL Operations: https://botize.com/en/app/site_inspector.md

## How to build this

An AI assistant (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor…) can create and edit these tasks in the user's account through the Botize MCP connector, included in every plan:

    https://webhook.botize.es/mcp

- Connection guide: https://botize.com/en/mcp
- Agent map: https://botize.com/llms.txt
- New account: https://botize.com/en/join (500 free operations, no card)

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Machine-readable summary for AI assistants. Human version: https://botize.com/en/method/site_inspector/site_down