How To Make an Automatic Website Status Monitoring Tool
In this video we will be making a serverless status monitor for your website using Python and Google Cloud functions. This tool will periodically make a request to your website. If it's down it will then automatically send you a text message. If your site is working it will simply do nothing
To make this tool we will write a simple Python script using the Requests library this will allow you to make an HTTP request to your website and return the HTTP response code. We will then use that response code to determine which action to take. Using Zapier we can easily access thousands of different apps and actions to take if your website is down. In this tutorial we will simply send a text message to notify us when our site is down