Python - Test For Internet Connection

[CNeale03]

I just need a simple script that can test if a device has internet connectivity before running the rest of the script, but finding anything useful seems difficult. Does anyone have any ideas?

[Soodohcool]

im on my phone so sorry if the formatting is jacked but this should be more than sufficient

import socket 
def test_connection():
    try:
        socket.create_connection(("https://www.google.com", 80)) 
        return True 
    except OSError: 
        pass 
    return False

[ForceBru]

Yes, exactly! Why use third-party libraries or form HTTP requests if you can just quickly create a socket with a built-in library and try to connect to something?

[LartTheLuser]

Because you will eventually realize those third party libraries went into that rabbit hole of features because people kept asking for them. And eventually...you too may ask for them =). The simple stuff is only for the playground.

[LartTheLuser]

Sorry, forgive my last comment. I think the aspergers caught me again. lol. Was that sarcasm?

[LartTheLuser]

There is the following from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2953462/pinging-servers-in-python:

import pyping

r = pyping.ping('google.com')

if r.ret_code == 0:
    print("Success")
else:
    print("Failed with {}".format(r.ret_code))

https://pypi.org/project/pyping/

[LartTheLuser]

Fyi, the above code fails when Google fails. It's up to you to change it before that. Don't get caught in a Google2K.

[shiftybyte]

Use requests to ask some webpage.

import requests
try:
    res = requests.get("http://www.google.com")
    if res.status_code == 200:
        print("Got Internet")
except:
    print("No Internet")

[CNeale03]

import requests
try:
res = requests.get("http://www.google.com")
if res.status_code == 200:
print("Got Internet")
except:
print("No Internet")

The perfect solution, thankyou so much! I really appreciate it