Checking if a website is up via Python

Question

By using python, how can I check if a website is up? From what I read, I need to check the "HTTP HEAD" and see status code "200 OK", but how to do so ?

Answer 1

You may use requests library to find if website is up i.e. status code as 200

import requests
url = "https://www.google.com"
page = requests.get(url)
print (page.status_code) 

>> 200