check-http-status

Easily check status codes, response headers, and redirect chains in Node.js
similar as done from the httpstatus website.

When the site is on VPN so this is where it plays an important role. You can
simply connect your system/machine with VPN and run this package locally so it
can check the status of your VPN connected URL(s).

It can also check the website that are secured with HTTP Authentication.

Install

Via npm

npm install check-http-status --save-dev

Via Yarn

yarn add check-http-status --dev

Examples

Status Code of the Sitemap(s) URL(s)

const checkHttpStatus = require('check-http-status');
checkHttpStatus({
    'sitemaps':  [
    'https://www.trunkcode.com/page-sitemap.xml',
    'https://www.trunkcode.com/post-sitemap.xml'
  ],
    'skip200': true, // Do not report the URLs having HTTP code 200.
  'export': {
    'format': 'xlsx',
    'location': '/Users/trunkcode/Desktop/',
  },
  'options': {
    'auth': {
      'password': 'Testing1234',
      'username': 'trunkcode'
    },
    'headers': {
      'Accept': 'text/html',
    }
  }
});

Status Code of the particular URL(s)

const checkHttpStatus = require('check-http-status');
checkHttpStatus({
    'urls': [
    'http://trunkcode.com/',
    'https://example.com/',
    'https://example1234.com/',
    'https://www.trunkcode.com/',
    'https://www.trunkcode.com/test/'
  ],
    'skip200': true, // Do not report the URLs having HTTP code 200.
  'export': {
    'format': 'xlsx',
    'location': '/Users/trunkcode/Desktop/',
  },
  'options': {
    'auth': {
      'password': 'Testing1234',
      'username': 'trunkcode'
    },
    'headers': {
      'Accept': 'text/html',
    }
  }
});

Status Code of the Sitemap(s) URL(s) with particular URL(s)

const checkHttpStatus = require('check-http-status');
checkHttpStatus({
    'sitemaps':  [
    'https://www.trunkcode.com/page-sitemap.xml',
    'https://www.trunkcode.com/post-sitemap.xml'
  ],
    'urls': [
    'http://trunkcode.com/',
    'https://example.com/',
    'https://example1234.com/',
    'https://www.trunkcode.com/',
    'https://www.trunkcode.com/test/'
  ],
    'skip200': true, // Do not report the URLs having HTTP code 200.
  'export': {
    'format': 'xlsx',
    'location': '/Users/trunkcode/Desktop/',
  },
  'options': {
    'auth': {
      'password': 'Testing1234',
      'username': 'trunkcode'
    },
    'headers': {
      'Accept': 'text/html',
    }
  }
});

Parameters

Attributes	Type	Required	Default	Description
sitemaps	Array	Yes		Sitemap(s) URL(s) where the Actual site URL(s) needs to be fetched for checking the HTTP Status.
urls	Array	Yes		URL(s) for which HTTP Status needs to be checked.
skip200	Boolean	No	`false`	Whether to list the HTTP status `200` URL(s) or not.
export	Object	No	`{}`	Whether to export the status report or not. By default it logs the report on the screen.
options	Object	No	`{}`	Define options like HTTP Auth credentials if the site is locked or headers etc.

NOTE: sitemaps or urls is required. You can define both parameters as
well to fetch URL(s) from sitemap and the URL(s) that are not listed in the
ssitemap, you can provide them separately.