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On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, neodem wrote:
> not sure if this is a scripting questoin or not. I've accumulated a bunch of
> URLs over the course of my internet days and I've got them all in a text
> file, listed one per line. There's easily over a hundred.
>
> I'd like to be able to quickly test them to see if they still exist (ie.
> they don't return a 4040 error). Is there a quick way I can do this without
> writing a dedicated application?
Sure. I know Python can, and I'm pretty sure Perl can, also. Here's a
way to do it in Python (you could just type this into an interpreter
session):
----- BEGIN CODE -----
import urllib, string
for line in open('myfile', 'r').readlines():
line = string.strip(line)
try:
u = urllib.urlopen(line)
except IOError:
print 'Bad URL:', line
else:
u.close()
----- END CODE -----
Note that if you type this directly into an interpreter session, you must
enter a blank line (with no spaces) at the end for the blocks to get
closed. The file will be processed as soon as you enter that blank line.
If you want to make it a little program, just include a hash-bang in the
first line with the path to your Python interpreter, i.e. "#!
/usr/bin/python".
Michael W. Ryan, MCP, MCT | OTAKON 2000
mryan@netaxs.com | Convention of Otaku Generation
http://www.netaxs.com/~mryan/ | http://www.otakon.com/
No, I don't hear voices in my head;
I'm the one that tells the voices in your head what to say.
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