Website Checker

This simple project is an example of how to use Kafka Consumers and Producers.

Quickstart

Install requirements:

sudo zypper in python-pip
make init

Configure:

cp configuration.env .env
vim .env # Make any changes needed

Test:

make test

Examples

• websiteCheck.py is an example how to use the Website-class to meassure websites and how to publish the results via the WCKafka-module to an existing Kafka instance.
• websiteConsumer.py is an example how to use the Database-class to add results to a PostgreSQL database. It also shows how to check and obtain new messages from an existing Kafka instance via the WCKafka-module.

python3 websiteCheck.py # Runs the Kafka Producer and checks the websites
python3 websiteConsumer.py # Runs the Kafka Consumer and submits entries to the DB