HTTP Status Checker

A command-line Python tool to check HTTP status codes with colored terminal output.

Features

• 🎨 Color-coded status responses - Visual status code highlighting
• 📊 Detailed information - Response time, redirects, content size
• 📁 Batch processing - Check multiple URLs from a file
• ⚙️ Flexible options - Custom timeouts, User-Agents, redirect control
• 🚀 Fast and lightweight - Minimal dependencies

Installation

Prerequisites

• Python 3.6 or higher
• pip package manager

Step 1: Install Dependencies

pip install requests colorama

Step 2: Download the script

git clone https://github.com/qventymr/http-status-checker.git
cd http-status-checker
mv http-status.py http-status

Step 3: Make Executable

chmod +x http-status

Adding to PATH

sudo mv http-status /usr/local/bin/

mkdir -p ~/.local/bin
mv http-status ~/.local/bin/
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

Command Line Options

usage: status-checker [-h] (-u URL | -f FILE) [-t TIMEOUT] [--no-redirect] [-v] [--user-agent USER_AGENT]

Check HTTP status code of URLs

options: -h, --help show this help message and exit -u URL, --url URL URL to check (e.g., example.com or https://example.com) -f FILE, --file FILE File containing URLs to check (one per line) -t TIMEOUT, --timeout TIMEOUT Request timeout in seconds (default: 10) --no-redirect Do not follow redirects -v, --verbose Verbose output --user-agent USER_AGENT Custom User-Agent string

Examples: status-checker -u example.com status-checker -u https://example.com -v status-checker -u example.com -t 5 --no-redirect status-checker -f urls.txt