A simple command-line utility that lets you follow redirects to see where http URLs end up. Useful for shortened URLs.
Follows up to 20 redirects Default.
Also added User-Agent header to requests, some web address won't redirect without browsers information eg: https://fb.me
npm install -g follow-redirect-url
npm install -save follow-redirect-url
follow https://bit.ly/2X7gCIT
The first argument is a url string.
'use strict';
const followRedirect = require('follow-redirect-url');
followRedirect.startFollowing('https://bit.ly/2X7gCIT').then(urls => {
console.log(urls);
}).catch(error => {
console.log(error)
})https://bit.ly/2X7gCIT -> 301
http://github.com/sthnaqvi/follow-redirect-url -> 301
https://github.com/sthnaqvi/follow-redirect-url -> 200
[ { url: 'https://bit.ly/2X7gCIT',
redirect: true,
status: 301,
redirectUrl: 'http://github.com/sthnaqvi/follow-redirect-url' },
{ url: 'http://github.com/sthnaqvi/follow-redirect-url',
redirect: true,
status: 301,
redirectUrl: 'https://github.com/sthnaqvi/follow-redirect-url' },
{ url: 'https://github.com/sthnaqvi/follow-redirect-url',
redirect: false,
status: 200 } ]
The second argument is an options object. Options are optional.
max_redirect_length- maximum redirection limit. Default:20request_timeout- request timeout in milliseconds. Default:10000ignoreSslErrors- ignore SSL certificate errors when following redirects. Default:false
const followRedirect = require('follow-redirect-url');
const options = {
max_redirect_length: 5,
request_timeout: 5000,
ignoreSsslErrors: true
};
followRedirect.startFollowing('https://bit.ly/2X7gCIT', options).then(urls => {
console.log(urls);
}).catch(error => {
console.log(error)
})