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