diff --git a/src/Psr18/URLExtractor.php b/src/Psr18/URLExtractor.php
index 2c42d12f..59f816af 100644
--- a/src/Psr18/URLExtractor.php
+++ b/src/Psr18/URLExtractor.php
@@ -12,8 +12,11 @@
 
 use chillerlan\HTTP\Psr17\RequestFactory;
 use Psr\Http\Client\ClientInterface;
-use Psr\Http\Message\{RequestFactoryInterface, RequestInterface, ResponseInterface};
+use Psr\Http\Message\{RequestFactoryInterface, RequestInterface, ResponseInterface, UriInterface};
 
+use function array_key_last;
+use function array_pop;
+use function count;
 use function in_array;
 
 /**
@@ -58,6 +61,33 @@ public function sendRequest(RequestInterface $request):ResponseInterface{
 		return $response;
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * extract the given URL and return the last valid location header
+	 */
+	public function extract(UriInterface|string $shortURL):?string{
+		$request  = $this->requestFactory->createRequest('GET', $shortURL);
+		$response = $this->sendRequest($request);
+
+		if($response->getStatusCode() !== 200 || empty($this->responses)){
+			return null;
+		}
+
+		$count = count($this->responses) - 2;
+
+		while($count >= 0){
+
+			$url = $this->responses[$count]?->getHeaderLine('location');
+
+			if(!empty($url)){
+				return $url;
+			}
+
+			$count--;
+		}
+
+		return null;
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * @return \Psr\Http\Message\ResponseInterface[]
 	 */
diff --git a/tests/Psr18/URLExtractorTest.php b/tests/Psr18/URLExtractorTest.php
index bce4ed62..2240ac9f 100644
--- a/tests/Psr18/URLExtractorTest.php
+++ b/tests/Psr18/URLExtractorTest.php
@@ -62,4 +62,10 @@ public function testSendRequest():void{
 
 	}
 
+	public function testExtract():void{
+		$url = $this->http->extract('https://t.co/ZSS6nVOcVp');
+
+		$this::assertSame('https://api.guildwars2.com/v2/build', $url);
+	}
+
 }