Create a website uptime checker

Here’s a simple website uptime checker script in Python that you can use to monitor whether a website is up or down. It uses the requests library to ping the site and reports the status based on the HTTP response code.

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import requests

def check_website_uptime(url, timeout=5):
    try:
        response = requests.get(url, timeout=timeout)
        if response.status_code == 200:
            return f"Website {url} is UP."
        else:
            return f"Website {url} returned status code {response.status_code}."
    except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
        return f"Website {url} is DOWN. Error: {e}"

if __name__ == "__main__":
    url = input("Enter the website URL to check (include http/https): ")
    status = check_website_uptime(url)
    print(status)

How this works:

• The script tries to perform a GET request to the given URL.

• If the response code is 200, it means the website is reachable and considered up.

• If the status code is anything else, it reports that code.

• If an exception occurs (timeout, DNS error, no connection), it reports the website as down.

If you want me to write a more advanced uptime checker with features like scheduled checks, email alerts, or a web interface, just ask!