Hello,

I've been making a scrapper using both LWP::UserAgent and WWW::Mechanize. So far it's mostly smooth sailing. But now I've come to an interesting speed-bump.

While following links, some of the are redirects to outside pages from the page I'm scarping.

i.e.
Am scrapping from Google
I follow a link from Google that is an inner direct to an outside site, let's say www.amazon.com.
What method can I use to find get find out that I've ended up on www.amazon.com from the link www.google.com/redirect/offsite/etc/etc/etc/?

Thank you.

In reply to How can I find where I've been redirected to, in my scrapper? by SergioQ

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