I think I worked this out. I found in some WWW::Mechanize docs that the proper way to query the redirect is using $response->redirects(). It seems that t.co does not return this header (anyone know why?) so you have to get it with the refresh parameter. But all the other shorteners (at least a slew of them I tested) do. So this code should work for most purposes. 
use strict;
use feature ':5.10';
use LWP::UserAgent;
our $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->max_redirect(10);
my @links = qw(
    https://tinyurl.com/69rmnakp
    https://t.co/NqACDPYdD9
    https://bit.ly/3eikm4z
    http://apne.ws/HGpbLTW
);

foreach my $link (@links) {
    say "$link > ".expand($link);
}

sub expand {
    my ($short) = @_;
    my $long;
    my $response = $ua->get($short);
    if ($response->is_success) {
            my @redirects = $response->redirects();
            if (@redirects) {
                $long = $redirects[0]->header('location');
            }
            elsif ($response->header('refresh')) {
                $long = $response->header('refresh');
                $long =~ s/0\;URL\=//;
            }
            return $long;
    }
    else {
        return $short;
    }    
}

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

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