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At the moment I fire up VPN, open browser in incognito mode, go to URL click link or two, take a screenshot as proof that web is up and running and then I move to the next one.
There must be a better way to do that. Is there a service for this? I was thinking about some automation maybe, but I lack selenium skills and I don't know how to activate VPN over the script.
If the concern is uptime there's a couple of service that also do regular screenshots and alerts when the website is slow or unresponsive. https://www.debugbear.com/ for example.
For a super quick check (every couple of months I need this) I usually use https://www.webpagetest.org/ Under 'advanced configuration' there's a dropdown of locations around the world. I gives a screenshot but not access to the full HTML.
There's services specialized in crawling + VPN. Often used to crawl shopping websites or Google result pages. One example is https://www.scrapingbee.com and you select the country https://www.scrapingbee.com/documentation/country_codes/ They can do screenshots, too. If the concern is uptime there's a couple of service that also do regular screenshots and alerts when the website is slow or unresponsive. https://www.de…
uh, many: I've intensively used these two: https://www.webpagetest.org https://tools.pingdom.com