A simple stand-alone Web service for monitoring websites

The code is runnable as a stand-alone Web server.

• Python 2.7
• web.py python module
• python requests

1. Get the code
2. Install web.py pip install web.py
3. Install requests pip install requests

Set the following variables in website-check.py

1. poll_interval (how often each site should be checked)
2. max_fails (maximum number of times a site can fail the check before email notification
3. gmail_user = '' (your gmail email address)
4. gmail_pwd = '' (your gmail password)
5. recipients = ['[email protected]', '[email protected]'] (who email should be sent to)

You can also use a smtp server other than gmail. Just set the values appropriately and see Python's smtplib documentation for more details.

There are two options: either specify URLs and assertion strings at runtime (use "" for no assertion), or specify a text file that contains comma separated URLs and assertion strings.

1. python website-check.py port "site1" "assert1" ["site2" "assert2" ... ]
2. `python website-check.py port servers.txt

Sample servers.txt

http://www.google.com,I'm feeling lucky
http://www.yahoo.com,Yahoo
http://www.bing.com,

Navigate to http://localhost:port to view...