Patrick Müssig b3nelof0n

FiloSottile / redirect-follower.py

Created March 18, 2012 16:39

Script to follow HTTP redirects and print the resulting URL - a.k.a. URL un-shortener

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	#-- coding:utf-8 --

	import sys
	import urllib2

	# This script uses HEAD requests (with fallback in case of 405)
	# to follow the redirect path up to the real URL
	# (c) 2012 Filippo Valsorda - FiloSottile
	# Released under the GPL license