How I Automate HTTP Health Checks in Python (No More Manual Ping)

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 w