You can use the Python requests library to check if the status code of a URL is 200 without actually downloading the file content. When you make a request using requests.get(), the response object will contain the status code, headers, and other metadata.
In this example, we set stream=True when making the request. This prevents requests from automatically downloading the file content. Instead, it allows us to inspect the status code and other metadata from the response.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 | import requests
def check_url_status(url):
try:
response = requests.get(url, stream=True)
if response.status_code == 200:
print("URL is accessible (status code 200).")
else:
print(f"URL is not accessible. Status code: {response.status_code}")
except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
print(f"Error: {e}")
# Example usage:
url_to_check = "https://example.com/somefile.txt"
check_url_status(url_to_check)
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