First weeks of november was very slow here. I was on some other ideas and no coding happened for best-web-tools.com. But in the last one or two weeks I finished some important stuff.

/status

There is finally a /status page for all the utilities and the checks happening in the background via Laravel scheduled tasks. Currently I just make HTTP requests and check for 500 errors. Along with this page I have also increased the tests for some utils that happening when I publish new versions to the production server.

Countries Data and /countries Util

I updated the old countries JSON and included some important data. This JSON is used in some utils like /ip, /latlng or /fetch and knows know some important figures like population, area and life expectation about every country. To see, sort, filter and download all the country data you can go to the new /countries util.

New Weather Data

I changed the /weather data provider to open-meteo.com. Thats an open source weather data provider and that makes it possible to search data for much more cities as in the old version. Because of the completely different data structure I had to change a lot in this util.

Port Scanner changed

I don't use nmap anymore. Port scanning is now made via PHP fsockopen function. You can now provide a list of max. 10 ports to scan via this tool. Captcha is still required. Don't use it for illegal stuff, only check your own servers with it.

Minor Changes

• /stocks Data is now updated via background task. No more waiting for nobody.
• Fixes in /movies and /series and better image versions for the posters
• Fixes in /sankey
• /webcam checker asks for permission after clicking start
• /holidays can now generate .ics files