resolve-redirects-efficient

A (node)JS module for efficiently resolving HTTP/HTTPS redirects.

What makes this efficient

Unlike the competition, this module does not request the URL itself, but rather performs an HTTP HEAD request in order to receive the headers only.

Only in cases where the server misbehaves (😮‍💨Amazon😮‍💨) it falls back to good old but heavy HTTP GET.

Also there are no dependencies.

Installation

npm install resolve-redirects-efficient

Usage

import resolveRedirect from 'resolve-redirect-efficient'

resolveRedirect('http://bit.ly/1TCI5N0')
  .then(url => console.log(url))

Credits

This is heavily based on the now defunct resolve-redirect by @Cezary.

Say hello!

Come say hello @ devsbedevin.net

License

MIT