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Find All Redirects on a Website in Python

Crawl a website from a starting URL, follow links within the same domain, and detect every HTTP redirect (301, 302, 303, 307, 308) using requests with redirects disabled.

redirects crawling requests
Python
import requests
from urllib.parse import urljoin, urlparse
from collections import deque

def find_redirects(start_url, max_pages=50):
    visited = set()
    redirects = {}
    queue = deque([start_url])
    
    while queue and len(visited) < max_pages:
        url = queue.popleft()
        if url in visited:
      …
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