Redirlookup

Redirlookup will follow and display the redirects from a given list of URLs. The result is shown as JSON.

This tool can help you:

• Follow the destination of link shorteners such as bit.ly or t.co
• Integrate lookup into your command line workflow using pipes and jq
• Automate lookup

Requirements

• Python 3

Usage

redirlookup.py [urls] [-f urls.txt]

Where urls is any number of URLs, and -f urls.txt is a file with URLs (one per line).

Examples

Basic usage

$ python redirlookup.py http://wikipedia.org/

Output:

[
  {
    "url": "http://wikipedia.org/",
    "redirects": [
      "http://wikipedia.org/",
      "https://wikipedia.org/",
      "https://www.wikipedia.org/"
    ]
  }
]

Note:

• the original URL is always included as the first URL among the redirects
• you can add as many URLs as you like on the command line

Save results to file

$ python redirlookup.py http://wikipedia.org/ http://amazon.com http://google.cm > output.json

Input file

Use input file (with one URL per line), and save results to file.

$ python redirlookup.py -f urls.txt > output.json