How to check if a google meet is open/available to join (Python)

Question

I want to make a python program that can check if a google meet is open/available to join (like doing ping meet.google.com/custom-meeting-link from cmd). Are there any modules I could use/any way of doing this?

Answer 1

If ping method works you can use that (even if not in native python)

import subprocess

ret = subprocess.run(["ping", "https://meet.google.com/custom-meeting-link"])

And then check ret.

A different method is to requests the page and parse it. Keeping it simple, you can just check the title of the page (here using bs4):

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

html = requests.get("meet.google.com/custom-meeting-link")
soup = BeautifulSoup(html.text, 'html.parser')
titlestring = soup.find('title').text

# If title string contains the title of the error page, there's no meeting, else it is online

I checked if it was possible to infer the meeting status just from the requests.get() response but it doesn't seem possible.