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Show HN: Redirect Checker - open-source URL redirect analysis tool
RedirectChecker is a comprehensive URL redirect analysis tool that
helps you examine and optimize your website's redirect structure.
It offers features like bulk URL checking, detailed redirect path
analysis, and SEO impact assessment to ensure your redirects are
implemented correctly and efficiently.
Author : proxyguru
Score : 16 points
Date : 2024-08-15 06:53 UTC (16 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| ramonverse wrote:
| I used your free api and the response gives no insights, is that
| how it is supposed to work?
|
| e.g. [ { "url": "https://pretzelai.github.io", "host":
| "pretzelai.github.io", "status": 200, "statusText": "OK",
| "duration": "0.167 s", "location": null } ]%
| proxyguru wrote:
| Yes, that's correct. The API returns JSON data showing the
| final destination and status. If there were redirects, you'd
| see multiple entries in the array.
| KomoD wrote:
| Example: [ { "url":
| "https://bit.ly/abc", "host": "bit.ly",
| "status": 301, "statusText": "Moved Permanently",
| "duration": "0.156 s", "location":
| "http://www.yahoo.com/" }, {
| "url": "http://www.yahoo.com/", "host":
| "www.yahoo.com", "status": 301,
| "statusText": "Moved Permanently", "duration":
| "0.081 s", "location": "https://www.yahoo.com/"
| }, { "url": "https://www.yahoo.com/",
| "host": "www.yahoo.com", "status": 200,
| "statusText": "OK", "duration": "0.488 s",
| "location": null } ]
|
| Redirected from bit.ly to HTTP yahoo.com and then redirected
| to HTTPS yahoo.com
| namanyayg wrote:
| how does it handle redirects that are conditional or based on
| user agent?
|
| e.g. if a site redirects mobile users to a different URL, will
| redirect checker follow that redirect or just report the default
| one?
| proxyguru wrote:
| Thanks for pointing that out! You're correct, the tool
| currently uses a default user agent and doesn't catch device-
| specific redirects. I agree this is an important feature. I'll
| be adding user agent customization soon. This will let you test
| mobile, desktop, and other specific redirects. Keep an eye on
| the GitHub repo for updates. Thanks for the great suggestion!
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