Use Curl to Monitor Websites

Here's a simple script which you can check to see if a website is up and responding.

!/bin/bash

$1 = URL to check
$2 = expected text to be found in the page

function c() {

 echo -en "Site $1\t"
 curl --silent --show-error --proxy-user ${USER}:${HTTP_PROXY_PASS} --proxy proxy3.macbank:8080 --location \
  --dump-header /tmp/$$.header "$1" -o/tmp/$$ && grep -q "$2" /tmp/$$
 if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
   echo "pass"
 else
   echo "failed to match '$2'"
   cat /tmp/$$.header
 fi
 /bin/rm /tmp/$$ /tmp/$$.header

}

c "http://www.theeggeadventure.com/" 'Brian' c "http://www.google.com.au/" 'Microsoft' </geshi>