🔒 How do I check the status of an API that I access with post requests without a "test" request?

[proper elbow]

this is my current simple function

def endpoint_is_valid(url: str) -> bool:
    try:
        response = requests.post(
                    url, 
                    json={
                        # here I have some dummy data
                    }
                )
        return response.status_code == 200
    except requests.exceptions.RequestException:
        return False

in this function I am doing a "test" request to check if the request is successful so I can make further requests in the future

however, since i just wanna check if this url is available, I think that this code is not good, since I send nonsense data

I tried to make a get request, however I dont get response code 200,

I have multiple urls where I have to check their availability so the solution should be applicable more generally

[surreal mantle]

@proper elbow

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[pale night]

I'm confused as to why you would want to do this "pre check", maybe i'm just being dense but why wouldn't you just make the request, and then deal with it if it fails. Why the need to pre check? if you pre check, and the end point works, whats to say it doesn't work immediately after your pre-check

In any case you could make a header request, which will tell you if the endpoint is reachable.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/web/http/methods/head

[proper elbow]

i use one endpoint and do x many requests (depends on the input of the user)

lets say I need for my program for example 12, I do those requests in threads, now if lets say one thread says, hey it doesnt work, i have to say all other threads hey stop doing what you doing and then i have to try the next url, and this every time the user reruns the code, i dont think this is good

[pale night]

Honestly don't understand what you're saying 100%.

If I am understanding correctly, I don't see any issue with that approach?

whats your actual issue with it

[proper elbow]

I rephrase

I have a program that needs to use an endpoint several times in the course of the program. These individual requests are executed in separate threads. If one of these requests fails, all other requests are useless to me.

So if I make, say, 12 individual requests without checking the API first, and one of them fails, I have to tell all the other threads not to make any more requests.

Let's say I have the status code 429, so every time the program is restarted, unnecessary time is wasted at the beginning to start these threads, which in the end have no use, because with the code 429 I can't make any more requests for a while, and my program tries to make several requests every time it is restarted, but they fail anyway. My idea is to solve this problem by first requesting the URL.

[proper elbow]

my problem is i don't know how to write "good" code for this very first request to check status code, and not like in my example where i make a dummy request

[proper elbow]

u say use this?

requests.head(url)

I tried it but I get 404

[surreal mantle]

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