Http Redirection code 3XX in python requests

requests handles redirects for you, see redirection and history.

Set allow_redirects=False if you don't want requests to handle redirections, or you can inspect the redirection responses contained in the r.history list.

Demo:

>>> import requests>>> url = 'https://httpbin.org/redirect-to'>>> params = {"status_code": 301, "url": "https://stackoverflow.com/q/22150023"}>>> r = requests.get(url, params=params)>>> r.history[<Response [301]>, <Response [302]>]>>> r.history[0].status_code301>>> r.history[0].headers['Location']'https://stackoverflow.com/q/22150023'>>> r.url'https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22150023/http-redirection-code-3xx-in-python-requests'>>> r = requests.get(url, params=params, allow_redirects=False)>>> r.status_code301>>> r.url'https://httpbin.org/redirect-to?status_code=301&url=https%3A%2F%2Fstackoverflow.com%2Fq%2F22150023'

So if allow_redirects is True, the redirects have been followed and the final response returned is the final page after following redirects. If allow_redirects is False, the first response is returned, even if it is a redirect.

requests.get allows for an optional keyword argument allow_redirects which defaults to True. Setting allow_redirects to False will disable automatically following redirects, as follows:

In [1]: import requestsIn [2]: r = requests.get('http://goo.gl/NZek5', allow_redirects=False)In [3]: print r.status_code301

This solution will identify the redirect and display the history of redirects, and it will handle common errors. This will ask you for your URL in the console.

import requestsdef init():    console = input("Type the URL: ")    get_status_code_from_request_url(console)def get_status_code_from_request_url(url, do_restart=True):    try:        r = requests.get(url)        if len(r.history) < 1:            print("Status Code: " + str(r.status_code))        else:            print("Status Code: 301. Below are the redirects")            h = r.history            i = 0            for resp in h:                print("  " + str(i) + " - URL " + resp.url + " \n")                i += 1        if do_restart:            init()    except requests.exceptions.MissingSchema:        print("You forgot the protocol. http://, https://, ftp://")    except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError:        print("Sorry, but I couldn't connect. There was a connection problem.")    except requests.exceptions.Timeout:        print("Sorry, but I couldn't connect. I timed out.")    except requests.exceptions.TooManyRedirects:        print("There were too many redirects.  I can't count that high.")init()