Unshortens ad-based urls and 301 redirects. Supports adf.ly, lnx.lu, and sh.st.

• Linkbucks.com and adfoc.us support temporarly removed.

• Supports unshortening the following ad-based shortners:
  • Adf.ly and related subdomains
  • Custom adf.ly domains by passing the type='adfly' parameter
  • Sh.st
• Supports any 301 redirected urls
• Python 2.7, 3.3, and 3.4 support

import unshortenit
unshortened_uri,status = unshortenit.unshorten('http://ul.to')

unshortenit.unshorten will return a tuple (unshortened_uri,status)

unshortened_uri will contain the unshortened uri. If you pass in a non-shortener url it will return the original url. status will contain the status code or any error messages

pip install unshortenit