Get the final destination of a URL

Source: R/io.R

If a URL is redirected, query the new location via curlGetHeaders(), otherwise return the original URL.

url_destination(x, force = FALSE)

Arguments

x

A character vector of URLs.

force

By default, the query is cached in the current R session. To bypass the cache, use force = TRUE.

Value

The final destination(s). If the URL returns a status code greater than or equal to 400, it will throw an error.

Examples

u = "https://tinytex.yihui.org"  # redirected to https://yihui.org/tinytex/
if (url_accessible(u)) url_destination(u)
#> [1] "https://yihui.org/tinytex/"