checks URLs

awesome-check.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import re
+import sys
+import urllib2
+
+with open(sys.argv[1], 'r') as f:
+    for line in f.readlines():
+        if '](http' in line:
+            for url in re.findall("(http[s?]://[^)]+)", line):
+                # print url
+                try:
+                    request = urllib2.Request(url)
+                    request.get_method = lambda : 'HEAD'
+                    resp = urllib2.urlopen(request)
+                    if resp.getcode() != 200:
+                        print 'ERROR - ', line
+                except urllib2.URLError, e:
+                    print e, line