How can I get the final redirect URL when using urllib2.urlopen?

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I'm using the urllib2.urlopen method to open a URL and fetch the markup of a webpage. Some of these sites redirect me using the 301/302 redirects. I would like to know the final URL that I've been redirected to. How can I get this?

score 38 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 10 '16 at 18:56

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Call the .geturl() method of the file object returned. Per the urllib2 docs:

geturl() — return the URL of the resource retrieved, commonly used to determine if a redirect was followed

Example:

import urllib2
response = urllib2.urlopen('http://tinyurl.com/5b2su2')
response.geturl() # 'http://stackoverflow.com/'

edited Sep 10 '16 at 18:56

Mark Amery

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answered Aug 24 '10 at 12:15

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how to handle when there are multiple intermediate urls and i want final url ? This does not work for that case. – Kishan Mehta Nov 29 '16 at 08:58

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 24 '10 at 12:16

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The return value of urllib2.urlopen has a geturl() method which should return the actual (i.e. last redirect) url.

answered Aug 24 '10 at 12:16

Michael

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 11 '15 at 07:22

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e.g.: urllib2.urlopen('ORIGINAL LINK').geturl()

urllib2.urlopen(urllib2.Request('ORIGINAL LINK')).geturl()

answered Jul 11 '15 at 07:22

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score -1 · Answer 4 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:29

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You can use HttpLib2 with follow_all_redirects = True and get the content-location from the response headers. See my answer to 'httplib is not getting all the redirect codes' for an example.

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answered Jul 23 '12 at 18:00

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How can I get the final redirect URL when using urllib2.urlopen?

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