Rest api does not tell if page does not exists (404)

[Salmela]

Bug Report

Current Behavior

Currently there is no way to detect if the link target returns non-successful HTTP status code (like 404, 401, etc.) These responses do have status: "success" which is bit misleading.

Expected behavior/code

I expect that there is some field that tells what the exact http status code was.

Additional context/Screenshots

404 page's response: https://api.microlink.io/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com/wufhiwef
200 page's response: https://api.microlink.io/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com/
This is related to #28

[Kikobeats]

It's expected behavior. The service gives you data, even the URL doesn't exist 🙂.

If you don't want to resolve 4xx URLs, just don't send them to the service.

You can perform a simple HTTP HEAD/GET before call the service.