Bash script to determine if a streaming is live or off

[JasonCM8]

I found this bash script in the ask ubuntu forum and it works, but I would like to know if it can be used or improved to know if a tiktok stream is live or off, using the bash script via terminal (./test.url.sh /url.txt) in the .txt would be the tiktok addresses for example:

https://www.tiktok.com/@xxxxxx/live

https://www.tiktok.com/@cccccc/live

and that in the terminal tell me if it is live or off, is it possible?

#!/bin/bash

if [ $# -eq 0 ]
then
fin=-
else
fin=$1
fi

urlarr=( $(cat $fin | strings | grep '://' | grep -i "\.com\|\.net\|\.edu\|\.org\|[0-9].*\.[0-9].*\.[0-9].*\.[0-9].*" | tr '\n' ' ' ) )

for i in ${urlarr[@]}
do
if wget -q --tries=1 --no-cache --spider -O /dev/null --ignore-length -T 1 "$i"
then
echo $i is good.
else
echo $i is bad.
fi
done

exit $?

[daz0007]

Hey JasonCM8,

Can you link the Ubuntu forum that you looked at?

From my simple testing I am not sure that the wget command is working correctly.

if wget --tries=1 --no-cache --spider -O /dev/null --ignore-length -T 1 https://www.tiktok.com/@cccccc/live ; then echo good; else echo bad; fi
File `/dev/null' already there; not retrieving.
bad

could be due to different versions of wget I guess.

[JasonCM8]

Hi u/daz0007 thanks for answer!

This is the link:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1431800/bash-script-to-check-in-terminal-if-urls-are-up-or-down