How to get correct website url from a redirect in r?

@filiberto 

To get the correct website URL from a redirect in R, you can use the following code snippet:

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library(httr)

# Make a GET request to the original URL
response <- GET("https://example.com/original-url", 
                follow_redirects(follow = FALSE))

# Get the final URL after following all redirects
final_url <- url_absolute(response$url)

print(final_url)

This code makes a GET request to the original URL while disabling automatic redirect following. It then retrieves the final URL after all redirects have been followed using the url_absolute function. Finally, it prints the correct website URL.