How do I get the final URL from a redirect link? (like requests.get from python)?

I'm using a SERP API to return Google Shopping links, and sometimes it returns Google aclk redirect links. In Python, the requests.get command and accessing the .url field gives me what I'm looking for. I tried using python within Matlab and it works with a single url, but when I try to use within a for loop it always freezes.

[Oliver James Hyde]

Did you ever work this out?

[Hank Helmers]

What is the Request.get method equivalent in matlab that you got to work?

Answer 1

[Mohammad Sami]

You can use the matlab.net.http interface to follow the redirects.

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/matlab.net.http.requestmessage.send.html?s_tid=doc_ta#d123e664933

request = matlab.net.http.RequestMessage;
uri = matlab.net.URI('https://goo.gl/maps/co8U2mMv8zFweDzN8');
[response,completedrequest,history] = send(request,uri);
finaluri = history(end).URI;
disp(finaluri);

  URI with properties:

              Scheme: "https"
            UserInfo: [0×0 string]
                Host: "www.google.com"
                Port: []
    EncodedAuthority: "www.google.com"
                Path: [""    "maps"    "place"    "Houston,+TX,+USA"    "@29.8174782,-95.6814846,10z"    "data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x8640b8b4488d8501:0xca0d02def365053b!8m2!3d29.7596088!4d-95.3723145"]
         EncodedPath: "/maps/place/Houston,+TX,+USA/@29.8174782,-95.6814846,10z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x8640b8b4488d8501:0xca0d02def365053b!8m2!3d29.7596088!4d-95.3723145"
               Query: [1×1 matlab.net.QueryParameter]
        EncodedQuery: "shorturl=1"
            Fragment: [0×0 string]
            Absolute: 1
          EncodedURI: "https://www.google.com/maps/place/Houston,+TX,+USA/@29.8174782,-95.6814846,10z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x8640b8b4488d8501:0xca0d02def365053b!8m2!3d29.7596088!4d-95.3723145?shorturl=1"