Python Requests library redirect new url

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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

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For python3 5  you can use the following code   import urllib request res   urllib request urlopen starturl  finalurl   res geturl   print finalurl

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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    gt  gt  gt  import requests  gt  gt  gt  response   requests get  http   httpbin org redirect 3    gt  gt  gt  response history   lt Response  302  gt    lt Response  302  gt    lt Response  302  gt    gt  gt  gt  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  gt  gt  gt  print response status code  response url  200 http   httpbin org get

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This is answering a slightly different question  but since I got stuck on this myself  I hope it might be useful for someone else   If you want to use allow redirects False and get directly to the first redirect object  rather than following a chain of them  and you just want to get the redirect location directly out of the 302 response object  then r url won t work   Instead  it s the  Location  header   r   requests get  http   github com    allow redirects False  r status code    302 r url    http   github com  not https  r headers  Location      https   github com  -- the redirect destination

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I think requests head instead of requests get will be more safe to call when handling url redirect check the github issue here   r   requests head url  allow redirects True  print r url

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the documentation has this blurb https   requests readthedocs io en master user quickstart  redirection-and-history  import requests  r   requests get  http   www github com   r url  returns https   www github com instead of the http page you asked for

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