Python Requests library redirect new url

Question

I've been looking through the Python Requests documentation but I cannot see any functionality for what I am trying to achieve.

In my script I am setting allow_redirects=True.

I would like to know if the page has been redirected to something else, what is the new URL.

For example, if the start URL was: www.google.com/redirect

And the final URL is www.google.co.uk/redirected

How do I get that URL?

Answer 1

You are looking for the request history.

The response.history attribute is a list of responses that led to the final URL, which can be found in response.url.

response = requests.get(someurl)
if response.history:
    print("Request was redirected")
    for resp in response.history:
        print(resp.status_code, resp.url)
    print("Final destination:")
    print(response.status_code, response.url)
else:
    print("Request was not redirected")

Demo:

>>> import requests
>>> response = requests.get('http://httpbin.org/redirect/3')
>>> response.history
(<Response [302]>, <Response [302]>, <Response [302]>)
>>> for resp in response.history:
...     print(resp.status_code, resp.url)
... 
302 http://httpbin.org/redirect/3
302 http://httpbin.org/redirect/2
302 http://httpbin.org/redirect/1
>>> print(response.status_code, response.url)
200 http://httpbin.org/get