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Test for valid url before scraping
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urlexists.py
import requests
def url_exists(url):
response = requests.get(url)
return response.status_code == requests.codes.ok
url_exists('http://google.com') #True: exists
url_exists('http://jeffgodwyll.com/ht.m') #False: doesn't exist
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