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real-url

Follow HTTP redirects and report the URL that actually serves the page.

Install the lupaxa-real-url package and import the lupaxa.real_url namespace. Use it from Python or from the real-url CLI in shell scripts.

pip install lupaxa-real-url

from lupaxa.real_url import resolve

resolve("https://example.com")

real-url https://example.com
real-url --full https://example.com
real-url --status https://example.com
real-url --version

What you get

  • The final URL by default, from the library or the CLI
  • The full hop list when you pass full=True or --full
  • HTTP status codes for each hop when you pass status=True or --status
  • Redirect-loop detection and a hop limit
  • Typed errors for bad URLs and network failures

Only http and https are followed. A URL without a scheme is tried as https:// first, then http:// if HTTPS cannot be fetched or returns 404. Relative Location headers are joined onto the current hop.

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