Checks if a URL is served with compression or not.

check_compression.py

import requests

def check_compression(url):
    try:
        # Send a GET request with Accept-Encoding header to test for compression
        headers = {
            "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate, br"
        }
        response = requests.get(url, headers=headers, timeout=10)

        # Check the Content-Encoding header in the response
        content_encoding = response.headers.get("Content-Encoding")

        if content_encoding:
            print(f"The URL {url} is served with compression: {content_encoding}")
        else:
            print(f"The URL {url} is not served with compression.")

    except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
        print(f"An error occurred while accessing the URL {url}: {e}")

# Example usage
if __name__ == "__main__":
    url_to_check = input("Enter the URL to check: ").strip()
    check_compression(url_to_check)