Validate URL Snippets

validateurls.py

from aiohttp import web
from http import HTTPStatus
import validators
import requests


def validate_url_format(longurl: str):
    """This function returns True if the longurl is in a valid format"""
    return validators.url(longurl)

def validate_url(longurl: str):
    """This function retruns True if the longurl is a valid web address"""
    try:
        headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:80.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/80.0'}
        response = requests.get(longurl, headers=headers)
        return response.status_code == HTTPStatus.OK        
    except Exception as ex:
        print(ex)
        return False