Ever had to manually ping 50+ APIs every day to check if they're up? I did. It's a nightmare of copy-pasting, checking logs, and missing a critical outage until it's too late. That's why I built a simple Python tool to automate HTTP health checks. It's not fancy, but it solves a real pain point for developers who manage multiple services. Here's the core idea: Instead of opening a browser or running curl for each URL, we write a script that checks the HTTP status of a list of URLs and tells us which ones are healthy. The tool uses Python's requests library (which is super easy to install with pip install requests ). We'll focus on checking for a 200 OK response, but you can easily extend it to check for specific content. First, let's define a function that checks if a URL is healthy: import requests def is_healthy ( url ): try : response = requests . get ( url , timeout = 3 ) return response .…