URL health checker

• Author: Viktor Stískala, [email protected]
• Created: 2011-04-22
• License: New BSD License

This utility goes through the links in the specified file and checks their health by returned http code. If the code is other than 200 (OK) then error message is printed to standard output.

Usage

./checker.py links_file

Links file

• file name have to be passed as first argument to the utility
• each line should contain one url address, use # for comments
• you can specify another IP address for each link to override DNS lookup
  • can be used for checking links after server replacement before changing DNS settings to the new IP address

Requirements

• Python 2.5+
• use 2to3 utility before using in Python 3