Follow url redirects

With this Node JS package you can follow all redirects from a given url.

Example

In this example, a bit.ly link has been created that will eventually lead to google.com.

const followRedirects = require('follow-url-redirects');
 
followUrlRedirects('https://bit.ly/3cScyDF').then(result => console.log(result));

This example returns the following result:

[
    {
        "url": "https://bit.ly/3cScyDF",
        "code": 301,
        "cookies": {},
        "queryParams": {}
    },
    {
        "url": "http://google.com/",
        "code": 301,
        "cookies": {},
        "queryParams": {}
    },
    {
        "url": "http://www.google.com/",
        "code": 200,
        "cookies": {},
        "queryParams": {}
    }
]

Extra options

There is also the possibility to add extra options as a 2nd parameter.

Option	Default	Description
timeout	10000(ms)	When a request takes too long it stops. In this case after 10 seconds
maxRedirects	10	The maximum number of redirects.

Example with options

const followRedirects = require('follow-url-redirects');
 
const options = {
    timeout: 3 * 1000, // 3 seconds
    maxRedirects: 5
};
 
followUrlRedirects('https://bit.ly/3cScyDF', options).then(result => console.log(result));