idrositis / url_pinger

URL Pinger using python.

url_pinger

URL-pinger is a handy tool to get the http-response status and/or code from a URL.

Example

$ ./url_pinger.py 'https://uk.news.yahoo.com/most-popular/'
{"http_response": 200, "http_response_description": "OK", "http_response_time": 795, "timestamp": 1436200470098}

The response-time is in milliseconds, while the timestamp is in Unix Epoch Time in milliseconds.

Error-Codes

An error is reflected to an http-response-like error-code, under the http_response key/field as below:

• 408: DNS resolution error
• 409: Protocol not supported
• 410: Request timeout

TODOs

Features & changes to possibly implement in the future:

• Add support for plain http protocol.
• Use one argument for all extra JSON fields, instead of --system & --environment.

Or maybe not...