How to Syntactically Validate a URL in Python

A syntactic validation system for URLs is a fast and efficient way to remove annoying problems caused by invalid links. While seemingly simple, it can actually be quite tedious to set up, requiring a lot of different conditions to be manually set. So rather than dealing with all of that, let’s use an API that will allow you to be done with the task in a matter of minutes.

Start by setting up the client we will be using.

pip install cloudmersive-validate-api-client

Now for function call setup for domain_url_syntax_only:

from __future__ import print_function
import time
import cloudmersive_validate_api_client
from cloudmersive_validate_api_client.rest import ApiException
from pprint import pprint
# Configure API key authorization: Apikey
configuration = cloudmersive_validate_api_client.Configuration()
configuration.api_key['Apikey'] = 'YOUR_API_KEY'
# Uncomment below to setup prefix (e.g. Bearer) for API key, if needed
# configuration.api_key_prefix['Apikey'] = 'Bearer'
# create an instance of the API class
api_instance = cloudmersive_validate_api_client.DomainApi(cloudmersive_validate_api_client.ApiClient(configuration))
request = cloudmersive_validate_api_client.ValidateUrlRequestSyntaxOnly() # ValidateUrlRequestSyntaxOnly | Input URL information
try:
# Validate a URL syntactically
api_response = api_instance.domain_url_syntax_only(request)
pprint(api_response)
except ApiException as e:
print("Exception when calling DomainApi->domain_url_syntax_only: %s\n" % e)

Done! Now just run it and get your results. If you want a more heavy-duty approach, you can use the url full validation function instead, which checks a variety of things including whether the URL’s endpoint is up and passes virus scanning.