Another way to ask this question is this: How do you programmatically expand a TinyURL link to its true location?
What I want to do is to find a way to programmatically take the link:
http://www.baidu.com/link?url=mW91GJqjJ4zBBpC8yDF8xDhiqDSn1JZjFWsHhEoSNd85PkV8Xil7qccoOX3rynaE
(the first link in a search for Jessica Alba using baidu.com) and have it return the actual link:
http://baike.baidu.com/view/270790.htm
That is just one example. What I want to do is not specific to Jessica but for using Baidu.com as part of my group of search engines in my meta search engine project.
Maybe there is a way of using the WebBrowser
class but I did not see a member that was the URL.
Maybe there is a way of using WebRequest
and WebResponse
.
Make a request to tinied URL, and parse out the HTTP response Location
header.
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