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

In my opinion, caisah's answer misses an important part of your question, namely dealing with the server being offline.

Still, using requests is my favorite option, albeit as such:

import requests

try:
    requests.get(url)
except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError:
    print(f"URL {url} not reachable")