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website-check

A simple stand-alone Web service for monitoring websites

The code is runnable as a stand-alone Web server.

Dependencies

  • Python 2.7
  • web.py python module
  • python requests

Installation

  1. Get the code
  2. Install web.py pip install web.py
  3. Install requests pip install requests

Configuration

Set the following variables in website-check.py

  1. poll_interval (how often each site should be checked)
  2. max_fails (maximum number of times a site can fail the check before email notification
  3. gmail_user = '' (your gmail email address)
  4. gmail_pwd = '' (your gmail password)
  5. recipients = ['[email protected]', '[email protected]'] (who email should be sent to)

You can also use a smtp server other than gmail. Just set the values appropriately and see Python's smtplib documentation for more details.

Run

There are two options: either specify URLs and assertion strings at runtime (use "" for no assertion), or specify a text file that contains comma separated URLs and assertion strings.

  1. python website-check.py port "site1" "assert1" ["site2" "assert2" ... ]
  2. `python website-check.py port servers.txt

Sample servers.txt

http://www.google.com,I'm feeling lucky
http://www.yahoo.com,Yahoo
http://www.bing.com,

Navigate to http://localhost:port to view...