Since you only need to check response codes you might want to only issue a HEAD request, this way you avoid downloading the page and discard the content.
HEAD
If you want to use the standard library you can do something like:
request = urllib.request.Request(url, method="HEAD") response = urllib.request.urlopen(request)
Unfortunately this will follow redirects, so you end up issuing multiple requests.
I'm sure there's a way to ignore redirects but you'd have to check the documentation.
Thanks!
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Since you only need to check response codes you might want to only issue a
HEADrequest, this way you avoid downloading the page and discard the content.If you want to use the standard library you can do something like:
Unfortunately this will follow redirects, so you end up issuing multiple requests.
I'm sure there's a way to ignore redirects but you'd have to check the documentation.
Thanks!