URLRequests

You might have seen this version of code in many repos, but this is my version of the same with a few minor tweaks. The following documentation specifies the language and libraries used to build this project.

Language : Python

Libraries Used : optparse, time, random, requests

Required Packages

Before you use this program, you would need to install the required libraries as mentioned above and can be done using the following command:

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Usage :

python3 urlrequests.py --link https://bit.ly/ProfileGitHub --time 25 

Documentation

This a project which enables you to send requests to a certain URL either at a fixed interval of time or random interval of time by using the requests library. Depending on the type of URL you must specify the contents of the headers, for instance URLs from URLShorteners such as bit.ly require header contents as follows:

'Content-Type': 'text/html',
'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/95.0.4638.69 Safari/537.36' 

but for other URLs, you can get away without specifying them.

It also utilizes the other libraries such as optparse to parse the options provided during command execution. The other libraries include the time library to provide time intervals between each requests, it's a necessary evil required to prevent abuse the provided URLs. Last, but not the least it utilizes random library to generate a time interval between 5-30 seconds incase the time interval is not specified.

Just a word of caution, if the time inteval is specified manually be sure to give a minimum of 5 seconds of time interval between each request. You can also change the User-Agent based on your liking. The help menu can be used as follows:

python3 urlrequests.py --help 

Output:
Usage: shortener.py [options]

Options:
  -h, --help             show this help message and exit
  -l LINK, --link=LINK  [Required] Used to specify a link for sending requests
  -t TIME, --time=TIME  [Optional] Used to specify the time interval between
                        each request
If time is not specified, a random time interval
between 5 to 30 seconds would be selected between each request.
Example: python3 urlrequests.py --link https://bit.ly/ProfileGitHub --time 20

Hope you found this project useful, if you have any queries feel free to raise an issue or contact me using the above-mentioned means!

Future Imporvements:

• To be able to provide custom User-Agent via the execution command.
• Add an option for specifying a time interval for the random time-interval option.
• Further House-Keeping & Beautification of Code.