HTML Redirect Tool?

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Hello I'm New here! Joined: 16 May 2013 Posts: 12

Does anyone know of a tool that will list all the redirects a link takes?

For example, I'm being spammed with a ton of Zbiddy affiliate links. The link in the email will be a throwaway domain, which if I put it in the one redirect checker I have found gives another site which appears to redirect it again. If I put the link in my web browser it takes me to Zbiddy.com.

I'd like a tool that will take that link, follow the redirect, show me that link, etc. etc. till it reaches the end, which would show me all the involved links.

Anyone know of something like that?

Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2013 9:22 pm

Try http://redirectcheck.com/. I haven't used it in a while, but it used to trace all redirects back to the original source, listing each step along the way.

Hello I'm New here! Joined: 16 May 2013 Posts: 12

Thanks, that is more or less exactly what I was looking for!

The only problem is, it obeys do-not-crawl instructions in robots.txt, so most of the time it stops after one hop Evil or Very Mad

I found that I can get a good look at it in Chrome by using the developer tools - you hit ctrl-shift-I and click on Network, and you can see all the requests that are generated when you open a link.

Unfortunately that gives me too much info, it shows the redirects but also every image, tracker, script, etc. etc. on the page Neutral

Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2013 1:21 am

You should be able to hack something up with wget. "wget -e robots=off" tells it to ignore robots.txt files.