added connection status macro and background task scheduling

web.py

@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
+import atexit
+import click
 import os
+import time
+import requests
 
+from apscheduler.schedulers.background import BackgroundScheduler
 from flask_migrate import Migrate
 
 from app import create_app, db
@@ -8,15 +13,24 @@ from yoink.config import config
 from yoink.comic import Comic
 
 
+def ping(url: str):
+    ''' check url for connection status'''
+    return requests.get(url).status_code
+
+
 app = create_app(os.environ.get('FLASK_CONFIG') or 'default')
 migrate = Migrate(app, db)
 
 @app.shell_context_processor
 def make_shell_ctx(): return dict(db=db, User=User, Role=Role, ComicMeta=ComicMeta)
 
+@app.context_processor
+def inject_status_code():
+    return dict(status_code=ping('http://readallcomics.com'))
+
 @app.cli.command()
 def test():
     ''' run unit tests '''
     import unittest
     tests = unittest.TestLoader().discover('tests')
-    unittest.TextTestRunner(verbosity=2).run(tests)
+    unittest.TextTestRunner(verbosity=2).run(tests)