verifies all links within a page, prints broken links

Author: ibra-kdbra

projects/link-verification/requirements.txt

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+bs4

projects/link-verification/verify_links.py

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+import requests
+import bs4
+
+def verify(url):
+    """verifies all links within a page, prints broken links
+    Args:
+        url (str): url of page to check
+    Returns:
+        None
+    """
+
+    res1 = requests.get(url)
+
+    try:
+        res1.raise_for_status()
+
+        soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(res1.text, 'html.parser')
+        pageLinks = [link.get('href') for link in soup.select('a') if link.get('href')]
+
+        brokenCount = 0
+        goodCount = 0
+
+        for link in pageLinks:
+
+            if link.startswith('http'):
+                res2 = requests.get(link)
+
+                try:
+
+                    res2.raise_for_status()
+                    print(f'Good: {link}')
+                    goodCount += 1
+
+                except Exception as exc:
+                    print(f'Broken: {link}')
+                    brokenCount += 1
+
+        print(f'{goodCount} Good. {brokenCount} Broken')
+
+
+    except Exception as exc:
+        print('There was a problem: %s' % (exc))
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    verify('https://automatetheboringstuff.com/chapter11/')