Checking if a website is up via Python

python http scripting httprequest http-head

You could try to do this with getcode() from urllib

import urllib.requestprint(urllib.request.urlopen("https://www.stackoverflow.com").getcode())

For Python 2, use

print urllib.urlopen("http://www.stackoverflow.com").getcode()

python http scripting httprequest http-head

I think the easiest way to do it is by using Requests module.

import requestsdef url_ok(url):    r = requests.head(url)    return r.status_code == 200

python http scripting httprequest http-head

You can use httplib

import httplibconn = httplib.HTTPConnection("www.python.org")conn.request("HEAD", "/")r1 = conn.getresponse()print r1.status, r1.reason

prints

200 OK

Of course, only if www.python.org is up.

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