use requests library

slog.py

@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 
-import urllib.request, datetime, os, time
-from urllib.error import URLError, HTTPError
-import sqlite3
+import requests, datetime, os
+import sqlite3, time
 
 now = datetime.datetime.now()
 day = now.strftime('%F')
@@ -19,35 +18,17 @@ else:
     db = sqlite3.connect('stats.db')
     c = db.cursor()
 
-request = urllib.request.Request(url)
+r = requests.get(url)
 
-try:
-	response = urllib.request.urlopen(request)
-
-except HTTPError as e:
-    # print('The server couldn\'t fulfill the request.')
-    # print('Error code: ', e.code)
-    error = e.code
+if not r.status_code == 200:
+    error = r.status_code
     data = None
-    pass
-except URLError as e:
-    # print('We failed to reach a server.')
-    # print('Reason: ', e.reason)
-    error = e.reason
-    data = None
-    pass
-
 else:
-    # everything is fine
-    data = response.read().decode('utf-8')
     error = None
+    data = r.text
 
-if error:
-    error = error.args[1]
-
-
-print(day,the_time,error, data)
 c.execute("""INSERT INTO stats VALUES(?,?,?,?)""", (day, the_time, error, data))
+
 db.commit()
 db.close()