On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > On Thursday, October 31, 2013 2:10:35 PM UTC-4, nishant bhakta wrote: > >> I was only giving an example as bitly, actually i need to proceed with >> "http://www.mysmartprice.com/out/sendtostore.php?id=107120529&top_category=electronics&store=amazon&mspid=51889&category=computer&rk=30"; >> this is the link that landed at "www.amazong.com" and i want write code >> that take this link and append something to the final landing link that is >> "www.amazon.com" > > When asking a question, it really helps to ask the question you want to ask, > not some other question which you think is similar :-) Details matter. > > The "normal" way a redirect is done is to return a 301 (or 302) status code, > and include a Location: line in the HTTP response headers. If that was the > case, you would just do a GET on the url with a library like requests and > examine the status code and headers in the response object you got back. > > This URL, however, doesn't do that. What it does do is include: > > <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; > url=http://amazon.in/gp/offer-listing/B00AF856T2/?/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=3626&creative=24790&creativeASIN=9380349300&linkCode=as2&tag=mysm-21";> > > in the body, which does kind of the same thing, but in a horrible way. I > suspect they do this provide a hook for the google analytics tracking code in > the window.onload handler. Unless you wanted to include a full HTML and > javascript execution environment in your application, you're pretty much > toast here. > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
You might look at the requests module: http://www.python-requests.org/en/latest/api/ It has an 'allow_redirects' parameter that looks like you can set to get the final url. Haven't tried it -- Joel Goldstick http://joelgoldstick.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
