#1

HI,
When tweet contains the shorten urls, once we extract the shorten urls how to get the actual url link instead of shorten url?

Thanks
Abdul

#2

If it’s a third party url shortener like bit.ly you would have to make an http HEAD or GET request and follow the redirects to the final location.

#3

Hi Igor,

Shorten URLs are like t.co ** and actual URL will be something like https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/new****, if I use GET for shorten url, I am getting source of url instead of actual url

Thanks
Abdul

#4

ah ok - the t.co shortener gets applied to every url, even already shortened ones. So if the url you want is like https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/... then this url should be inside the urls object in the json in expanded_url Tweet object | Docs | Twitter Developer Platform - but you’ll have to specify this field to be included using tweet.fields=entities url parameter Using fields and expansions | Docs | Twitter Developer Platform