from urlparse import urlparse from threading import Thread import httplib, sys from Queue import Queue concurrent = 200 def doWork(): while True: url = q.get() status, url = getStatus(url) doSomethingWithResult(status, url) q.task_done() def getStatus(ourl): try: url = urlparse(ourl) conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(url.netloc) conn.request("HEAD", url.path) res = conn.getresponse() return res.status, ourl except: return "error", ourl def doSomethingWithResult(status, url): print status, url q = Queue(concurrent * 2) for i in range(concurrent): t = Thread(target=doWork) t.daemon = True t.start() try: for url in open('urllist.txt'): q.put(url.strip()) q.join() except KeyboardInterrupt: sys.exit(1)