Python script to monitor site uptime. From http://www.craigaddyman.com/python-script-to-monitor-site-up-time/

uptime.py

from threading import Thread
import requests ## pip install requests
import time
import smtplib

## email sending function
def email_sender(input_message, email_to, client):
    ''' function to send email '''
    to = email_to
    gmail_user = '' ## email of sender account
    gmail_pwd = '' ## password of sender account
    smtpserver = smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com",587)
    smtpserver.ehlo()
    smtpserver.starttls()
    smtpserver.ehlo
    smtpserver.login(gmail_user, gmail_pwd)
    header = 'To:' + to + '\n' + 'From: ' + gmail_user + '\n' + 'Subject:site down! \n'
    input_message = input_message + client
    msg = header + input_message
    smtpserver.sendmail(gmail_user, to, msg)
    smtpserver.close()

## list of sites to track along with email address to send the alert
clients = {"client":"email",
"client":"email",
"client":"email"}

## temporary dictionary used to do separate monitoring when a site is down
temp_dic = {}

## site 'up' function
def site_up():
    ''' function to monitor up time '''
    while True:
        for client, email in clients.items():
            try:
                r = requests.get(client)
                if r.status_code == 200:
                    print client, 'Site ok'
                    time.sleep(60) ## sleep for 1 min
                else:
                    print client, 'Site first registered as down - added to the "site down" monitoring'
                    temp_dic[client]=email
                    del clients[client]
            except requests.ConnectionError:
                print client, 'Site first registered as down - added to the "site down" monitoring'
                temp_dic[client]=email
                del clients[client]

## site 'down' function
def site_down():
    ''' function to monitor site down time '''
    while True:
        time.sleep(900) ## sleeps 15 mins
        for client, email in temp_dic.items():
        try:
            r = requests.get(client)
            if r.status_code == 200:
                print client, 'Site is back up!!'
                email_sender('Site back up!! ', email, client)
                clients[client]=email
                del temp_dic[client]
            else:
                email_sender('Site down!! ', email, client)
                print client, 'Site Currently down - email sent'
        except requests.ConnectionError:
            email_sender('Site down!! ', email, client)
            print client, 'Site Currently down - email sent'
            
t1 = Thread(target = site_up)
t2 = Thread(target = site_down)
t1.start()
t2.start()