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I'm looking for a way to show all of the URLs in a redirect chain, preferably from the shell. I've found a way to almost do it with curl, but it only shows the first and last URL. I'd like to see all of them.

There must be a way to do this simply, but I can't for the life of me find what it is.

Edit: Since submitting this I've found out how to do it with Chrome (CTRL+SHIFT+I->Network tab). But, I'd still like to know how it can be done from the Linux command line.

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How about simply using wget?

$ wget http://picasaweb.google.com 2>&1 | grep Location:
Location: /home [following]
Location: https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?hl=en_US&continue=https%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Flh%2Flogin%3Fcontinue%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fpicasaweb.google.com%252Fhome&service=lh2&ltmpl=gp&passive=true [following]
Location: https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?hl=en_US&continue=https%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Flh%2Flogin%3Fcontinue%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fhome&service=lh2&ltmpl=gp&passive=true [following]

curl -v also shows some info, but looks not as useful as wget.

$ curl -v -L http://picasaweb.google.com 2>&1 | egrep "^> (Host:|GET)"
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> Host: picasaweb.google.com
> GET /home HTTP/1.1
> Host: picasaweb.google.com
> GET /accounts/ServiceLogin?hl=en_US&continue=https%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Flh%2Flogin%3Fcontinue%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fpicasaweb.google.com%252Fhome&service=lh2&ltmpl=gp&passive=true HTTP/1.1
> Host: www.google.com
> GET /ServiceLogin?hl=en_US&continue=https%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Flh%2Flogin%3Fcontinue%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fpicasaweb.google.com%252Fhome&service=lh2&ltmpl=gp&passive=true HTTP/1.1
> Host: accounts.google.com
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  • That looks like it'll do it. I'm just curious though, why did you send STDERR to STDOUT?
    – felwithe
    Jul 15 '15 at 10:12
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    If I'm not mistaken, it will only work for redirection using the location header, not for 301 http codes
    – greg
    Mar 3 '17 at 10:29
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    I cannot reproduce the wget example. Returns "503: Service Unavailable." - Maybe they are blocking the wget but not the curl http-user-agent? Is this just me?
    – StackzOfZtuff
    Nov 17 '17 at 12:01
  • When I have a redirect from www to the canonical URL, a bit later I have redirect from HTTP to HTTPS or otherwise. How can I collect an array of all redirects per domain? Was it the point of a question?
    – Max Yudin
    Oct 23 '19 at 19:18
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curl -v can show all the URLs in an HTTP redirect chain:

$ curl -v -L https://go.usa.gov/W3H 2>&1 | grep -i "^< location:"
< location: http://hurricanes.gov/nhc_storms.shtml
< Location: https://www.hurricanes.gov/nhc_storms.shtml
< location: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov:443/nhc_storms.shtml
< location: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/cyclones
< Location: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/cyclones
< location: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/cyclones/
< Location: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/cyclones/
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