Monitor-Website

What Is It?

• This is a helper program for Website Administrators.
• It checks periodically websites that you defined in a .csv file.
• Logs them to log.csv file.
• Shows the last search results in a web page with a nice layout.

How Is It Helpful?

• You can verify which websites are down or live.
• You can verify if a website has the string you were searching for, in the response.
• It creates a log file(log.csv) of all the websites it checked so far.
• It opens a website for you to check the last search results.
• Periodic checking time can be redefined in seconds.

How To Use It?

• You need to have Python installed before using. You can install it here.
• Clone the repository to your file system.
• Run ./monitor.py within terminal. You should be in the directory where you cloned.
  • Program will start with default parameters: 60 seconds interval time and input file of config.csv.
  • This will serve a website at http://127.0.0.1:5000/ (I used Flask and Bootstrap).
  • At the same time starts to fill up output log.csv file.
  • I used Python's threading module to run 2 tasks in one file.
• You can alternatively give 2 arguments:
  • first argument: interval time of periodic checks(seconds).
    • ie. -> ./monitor.py 120 (program runs, every 2 minutes.)
  • second argument: optional input .csv file.
    • ie. -> ./monitor.py 60 my_websites.csv (program runs, every minute and reads from my_websites.csv)
• Hit ctrl-c to stop the program.

Other Notes

Please note if custom config file is given (if you use default config.csv, no need to do anything), custom file's first line shouldn't contain any data. Because that's reserved for header row.

Filling up with header info like => name, url etc.. is advised. (Or just fill the first line with dummy data) Program will start checking, starting from 2nd line.

Last thing to note is that, custom config file shouldn't have any empty lines.

Feel free to fork or pull-request.

Thank you