Checking whether specific website is up in the terminal? - bash

Question

Is there an easy way to check Internet connectivity from console? I am trying to play around in a shell script. One idea I seem is to wget --spider http://www.google.com/ and check the HTTP response code to interpret if the Internet connection is working fine.
This is what I am trying:
#!/bin/bash
# Sending the output of the wget in a variable and not what wget fetches
RESULT=`wget --spider http://google.com 2>&1`
FLAG=0
# Traverse the string considering it as an array of words
for x in $RESULT; do
if [ "$x" = '200' ]; then
FLAG=1 # This means all good
fi
done
Is there any way to accomplish this?

Answer 1

You can do it with ping or curl commands. Check man for more.

Answer 2

I am using this for myself and kinda works for me! It checks the connection from a reliable website like google and if it gets 200 status as the response, you probably have internet.
if curl -s --head --request GET www.google.com | grep "200 OK" > /dev/null ; then
echo "Internet is present"
else
echo "Internet isn't present"
fi
On one line, thanks #PS
if ping -c1 8.8.8.8 &>/dev/null ;then echo Working ;else echo Down ;fi

Answer 3

An option that does not use the internet to see if it is available is to check for a default route in your routing tables. The routing daemon will remove your default route when the internet is not available and add it back when it is.
netstat -nrf inet | grep -q ^default && \
echo internet is up || \
echo internet is down
To check if a website is up, you can use netcat to see if it is listening on port 80. This helps with sites that refuse head requests with '405 Method Not Allowed'.
nc -zw2 www.example.com 80 &>/dev/null && \
echo website is up || \
echo website is down

Answer 4

Please try this code.
#!/bin/bash
wget -q --spider http://google.com
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
echo "Internet connection is OK"
else
echo "Internet connection is FAILED"
fi

Answer 5

A bit more compact variant of #carlos-abraham answer. You can have curl to output just the http response code and make a decision with it
# 200 if everything is ok
http_code=$(curl -s --head -m 5 -w %{http_code} --output /dev/null www.google.com)
if [ "$http_code" -eq 200 ]; then
echo "success"
else
# write error to stderr
echo "http request failed: $http_code" >&2
exit 1
fi
-m 5: wait 5 seconds for the whole operation
--output /dev/null: suppress html site response
-w %{http_code}: write to stdout the http response code.
A bit more elaborated script to check connectivity and http response
#url="mmm.elgoog.moc"
url="www.google.com"
max_wait=5
(ping -w $max_wait -q -c 1 "$url" > /dev/null 2>&1 )
response_code=$?
if [ "$response_code" -eq 0 ]; then
# 200 if everything is ok
response_code=$(curl -s --head -m $max_wait -w %{http_code} --output /dev/null "$url")
fi
case "$response_code" in
1)
echo "Connectivity failed. Host down?" >&2
exit $response_code
;;
2)
echo "Unknown host or other problem. DNS problem?" >&2
exit $response_code
;;
200)
echo "success"
exit 0
;;
*)
echo "Failed to get a response: $response_code" >&2
exit 1
esac