How to get original url from requests

Question

In doing the following:

>>> res=requests.get('http://www.hulu.com/return-of-the-one-armed-swordsman')
>>> res.url
u'http://www.hulu.com/watch/800769'

How would I get the original url that was called from res. That is, how would I get the res object to return http://www.hulu.com/return-of-the-one-armed-swordsman?

Answer 1

requests keeps a history of redirect requests... Take the first entry from that...

import requests

res=requests.get('https://httpbin.org/status/301')
res.url
# https://httpbin.org/get
res.history[0].url
# https://httpbin.org/status/301

Note - you might want to cater for where no redirects occured, eg:

url = res.history[0].url if res.history else res.url

Of course -the other way is to just keep your URL in a variable and pass that to requests.get - then you know what you asked for to start with...