Python Tutorial: Write a Script to Monitor a Website, Send Alert Emails, and Reboot Servers

In this Python Programming Tutorial, we're going to be looking at a real-world example of writing a script to monitor a website. If the website doesn't return a successful response for any reason then we will send an email and reboot the web server. Let's get started...

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[coreyms]

I put the code to this script in the description section of the video. For anyone who would like to see what some basic logging would look like for this script, I added some logging code to the script and commented it out for reference. I hope you all find these real-world examples helpful!

[riddhiprajapati]

I just got an Assignment from my manager to monitor our portal. You saved me.

[MachineOverlords]

Working through an actual project was very helpful. The how-to tutorials are great and I still have ground to cover but I think my biggest issue is how to get started and work through the problem. Thank you for the great content!

[anony]

I did something similar recently on my own. I made a python script to scan a company's 'careers' page for a job that I should be getting. It's opening up soon and a former manager is trying to help me get on. It detects how many pages there are(usually around 19 pages of results total) using the pagination text at the bottom of the page, then it will go through every list page and open up every job page on each list page to scan the whole page for a specific keyword. I think it opens like 120 or so job pages. I put like a 5 second delay in between each job page scan so it's not excessive, and in between each complete scan I make it wait around 40-60 minutes so that way it's not constantly loading pages all day. Once it finds the job im looking for, it will use the pushbullet python package using pushbullets api to send a notification to my phone. The pushbullet api is great and easy to use. I could easily add something similar to my reddit scanner, like a breaking news alert for example.

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[slavoie]

Thank you Corey! That was fantastic as always! I love how you explain everything so clearly and write your code so flawlessly. This is definitely quite useful!

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[beornbeorn]

I don't know if u mentioned this in the video but there are nice tools created to monitor projects. Personally I use Sentry at work and seems good enough.