Nov. 16, 2023, 12:59 a.m. | Kacper Włodarczyk

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Sometimes when you scrape a website, you may have encountered the fact that the website returns shortened URLs to sources from other websites.


As in this case, for example, https://upflix.pl/r/Qb64Ar this link consists of a domain and some random characters. The way a shortened link works is that it redirects you to another page. Therefore, the status_code that our query returns is 302


Sometimes it happens that we need a full URL to get that can do this with a …

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