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Checking if a website is up via Python

By using python, how can I check if a website is up? From what I read, I need to check the "HTTP HEAD" and see status code "200 OK", but how to do so ?

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Solution

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

    import urllib.request

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

    200

    For Python 2, use

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

    200