Check Websites HTTP Status Codes with httpcheck

• Name: httpcheck
• Version: 1.2.0
• Programming language: Python 3
• Author: Thomas J. Dyhr
• Purpose: CLI tool to Check Website HTTP Status
• Release date: 19. Marts 2024

usage: httpcheck [-h] [-t] [-q | -v | -c | -f] [--version] [site ...]

positional arguments:

site return http status codes for one or more websites

optional arguments:

-h, --help show this help message and exit -t, --tld check if domain is in global list of TLDs -q, --quiet only print errors -v, --verbose increase output verbosity -c, --code only print status code -f, --fast fast check wtih threading --version show program's version number and exit

additional information:

enter sites in url or 'no' url form: 'httpcheck duckduckgo.com'
read sites from a file: 'httpcheck @domains.txt'.

List of HTTP status codes

installation

clone repo and install requirements.

clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/docdyhr/httpcheck
cd httpcheck/

install requirements

python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt --user

alternative install

set up a virtual environment with venv.

python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

or

mv httpcheck.py ~/bin/httpcheck # any other bin folder
chmod + ~/bin/httpcheck

usage examples

python3 httpcheck.py https://duckduckgo.com

returns ex. 'duckduckgo.com 200'

python from venv

python httpcheck.py -v https://api.github.com/invalid

returns verbose output ex. '[-] api.github.com --> Client errors: 404 Not Found'

installed as binary

httpcheck -q @domains.txt

only returs http status code errors ex. 'api.github.com 404'

httpcheck -c 1.1.1.1

status code only ex. '200'

history

checking one or more websites by constantly opening a browser seems a waste of time. Providing a cli tool that can be used in a bash shell, pipe or for scheduling tasks in cron, notifying the user, seems the way to go. The python requests library seems perfect for the job.

todo

TODO.md

license

MIT