Getting the final URL after a redirected HTTP GET Request

[sming]

Hi folks,

In a nutshell, Reddit bans the Google photos short links, which is really frustrating. What I would like is to write a macro which does a GET on the short link (screenshot attached) - which is what Google photos gives you when you share an album - and perform a HTTP GET Request with the redirect box checked - and I don't care about the response whatsoever I just care about the final URL - i.e. I want the full length Google photos link.

Does anyone know of a way to do this in macrodroid? For reference here is how you do it to be redirected from Google.Com to www.google.com using the venerable curl command in your favorite shell:

curl -Ls -o /dev/null -w %{url_effective} http://google.com http://www.google.com/

From the always excellent Baeldung site.

Cheers, all help welcome!
Pete

 

[sming]

So as a real world example, I want to pass in:

New video by Peter Kingswell

photos.app.goo.gl

And get the following as a result:

New video by Peter Kingswell

photos.google.com

Try it: if you pop the former in your browser, your URL after a few seconds will be the latter.

 

[Dimlos]

I think this macro can expand the URL.

 

[Dimlos]

@sming
Did you solve your problem?

 

[sming]

@sming
Did you solve your problem?

@Dimlos , sorry I've been sick, I'll try it now, thanks so much geeza.