Randomly Select Status Code from URL

The function fetches the response status code from the given URL and randomly returns one. If the URL has only one status code, it returns that code directly; if the URL has multiple status codes, it randomly selects one to return.

Technology Stack : requests, random

Code Type : Function

Code Difficulty : Intermediate

                
                    
def fetch_random_status_code(url):
    import requests
    import random

    response = requests.get(url)
    status_codes = response.status_code
    random_status_code = random.choice([status_codes] if isinstance(status_codes, int) else status_codes)

    return random_status_code