Here’s a quick and dirty Python script that goes through a list of URLs, and for each URL checks HTTP status codes (200, 301, 404, etc.), along with number of redirects and redirect chains (each redirect destination). Saves output into a text file (you can modify to save to CSV, but I used text import feature in Excel to import tab-delimited data).
Well, damn hosted WordPress doesn’t let me paste code correctly, so here’s the link to Gist.
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| import requests | |
| def get_status_code(url): | |
| try: | |
| r = requests.get(url) | |
| print "Processing " + url | |
| if len(r.history) > 0: | |
| chain = "" | |
| code = r.history[0].status_code | |
| final_url = r.url | |
| for resp in r.history: | |
| chain += resp.url + " | " | |
| return str(code) + '\t' + str(len(r.history)) + '\t' + chain + '\t' + final_url + '\t' | |
| else: | |
| return str(r.status_code) + '\t\t\t\t' | |
| except requests.ConnectionError: | |
| print("Error: failed to connect.") | |
| return '0\t\t\t\t' | |
| input_file = 'urls.txt' | |
| output_file = 'output.txt' | |
| with open(output_file, 'w') as o_file: | |
| o_file.write('URL\tStatus\tNumber of redirects\tRedirect Chain\tFinal URL\t\n') | |
| f = open(input_file, "r") | |
| lines = f.read().splitlines() | |
| for line in lines: | |
| code = get_status_code(line) | |
| o_file.write(line + "\t" + str(code) + "\t\n") | |
| f.close() |
Update: and here’s how to post Gist properly:
Tanya Nam 