Reddit: Some `reddit.com/(r|user)/s/:id` URLs are actually redirects to other sites.

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Reddit: Some `reddit.com/(r|user)/s/:id` URLs are actually redirects to other sites. #34

Open RalphORama opened 9 months ago

RalphORama commented 9 months ago

Fixing these would require using curl (or libcurl or w/e) to check if the location header in the request to vxreddit is a site other than reddit.com

Example (shell):

curl -v https://vxreddit.com/r/nfl/s/klVXoLSTdX 2>&1 | grep -i location
#< location: https://twitter.com/kahuna_med/status/1741580123327869157?s=46&amp;t=m2SMNFb9k8aBi4agkkqcQA

shoegaze commented 4 months ago

Looks like we can handle redirects within Node.js using follow-redirects