How do I make a username-checker in Python using status-codes?

Question

I'm trying to make a program that checks username availability on Ubisoft.com.

I tried to do this by entering a profile URL letting the code check whether the site gives a 200- or a 404 status code, with 404 being a Taken username and 200 an Available username.

The problem with using a 200 status code for this is that the page that says it’s a 404 is in fact a 200 status code.

Does anyone know a way to make it print (“AVAILABLE”) if an username exists (like https://ubisoftconnect.com/en-US/profile/test) and print (“TAKEN”) if an username is taken (like https://ubisoftconnect.com/en-US/profile/test1241924)

The code I currently have and used for the 200 and 404 source code:

(urllib.request.urlopen("https://ubisoftconnect.com/en-US/profile/test1241924").getcode())

if (urllib.request.urlopen("https://ubisoftconnect.com/en-US/profile/test1241924").getcode()) == 200:
    print ("TAKEN")
if (urllib.request.urlopen("https://ubisoftconnect.com/en-US/profile/test1241924").getcode()) == 404:
    print ("AVAILABLE!")

Quessts · Accepted Answer · 2021-05-07 01:41:15Z

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Well first of all I'd recommend using the python requests module for this. You can implement something similar to this in urlib3 as well:

import requests

r = requests.get('https://ubisoftconnect.com/en-US/profile/test1241924')

text = r.text

if 'Nothing is broken' in text:
    print('taken')
else:
    print('available')

This is one way of doing it

answered May 7, 2021 at 1:41

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user15855088 Over a year ago

Does not work as the website always has 'Nothing is broken' as text somehow, which makes it always print 'taken'

Sokisa · Accepted Answer · 2023-01-06 07:27:20Z

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urlib is a good choice but for more simple code use requests

example:

import requests
r = requests.get("https://ubisoftconnect.com/en-US/profile/test1241924")
if r.status_code == 404:
   print("Available"}
elif r.status_code == 200:
    print("Taken")

i also recommend using headers!

answered Jan 6, 2023 at 7:27

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