In python, how would I check if a url ending in .jpg exists?
ex: http://www.fakedomain.com/fakeImage.jpg
thanks
See Question&Answers more detail:osIn python, how would I check if a url ending in .jpg exists?
ex: http://www.fakedomain.com/fakeImage.jpg
thanks
See Question&Answers more detail:osThe code below is equivalent to tikiboy's answer, but using a high-level and easy-to-use requests library.
import requests
def exists(path):
r = requests.head(path)
return r.status_code == requests.codes.ok
print exists('http://www.fakedomain.com/fakeImage.jpg')
The requests.codes.ok
equals 200
, so you can substitute the exact status code if you wish.
requests.head
may throw an exception if server doesn't respond, so you might want to add a try-except construct.
Also if you want to include codes 301
and 302
, consider code 303
too, especially if you dereference URIs that denote resources in Linked Data. A URI may represent a person, but you can't download a person, so the server will redirect you to a page that describes this person using 303 redirect.