Python follow redirects and then download the page?
You might be better off with Requests library which has better APIs for controlling redirect handling:
https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/master/user/quickstart/#redirection-and-history
Requests:
https://pypi.org/project/requests/ (urllib replacement for humans)
Use requests
as the other answer states, here is an example. The redirect will be in r.url
. In the example below the http
is redirected to https
For HEAD:
In [1]: import requests
...: r = requests.head('http://github.com', allow_redirects=True)
...: r.url
Out[1]: 'https://github.com/'
For GET:
In [1]: import requests
...: r = requests.get('http://github.com')
...: r.url
Out[1]: 'https://github.com/'
Note for HEAD you have to specify allow_redirects
, if you don't you can get it in the headers but this is not advised.
In [1]: import requests
In [2]: r = requests.head('http://github.com')
In [3]: r.headers.get('location')
Out[3]: 'https://github.com/'
To download the page you will need GET, you can then access the page using r.content