Hi all. I am trying to expand some links found in twitter. They are all t.co links. I have been able to do it with those with a cheat:
use LWP::UserAgent; our $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new; $ua->max_redirect(10); my $twitter = ' https://t.co/NqACDPYdD9'; my $tiny = 'https://tinyurl.com/69rmnakp'; expand($twitter); sub expand { my ($short) = @_; my $response = $ua->get($short); if ($response->is_success) { my $long = my $long = my $long = $response->header('refres +h'); $long =~ s/0\;URL\=//; return $long; } else { say $response->status_line; } }
But there is no $response->{_headers}->{refresh}; element for the tinyurl link. In fact, browsing through $response with my debugger I can't find anything that looks like the expanded link. I know it's a valid link because my browser expands it.

What is the proper way to get the penultimate redirected-to link from the $response object?


In reply to Proper way to get redirected url from LWP::UserAgent response? by cormanaz

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