twoot.py

@@ -66,37 +66,6 @@ USER_AGENTS = [
     'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/107.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Vivaldi/5.4.2753.51',
 ]
 
-def deredir_url(url):
-    """
-    Given a URL, return the URL that the page really downloads from
-    :param url: url to be de-redirected
-    :return: direct url
-    """
-
-    # Get a copy of the default headers that requests would use
-    headers = requests.utils.default_headers()
-
-    # Update default headers with randomly selected user agent
-    headers.update(
-        {
-            'User-Agent': USER_AGENTS[random.randint(0, len(USER_AGENTS) - 1)],
-        }
-    )
-
-    ret = None
-    try:
-        # Download the page
-        ret = requests.get(url, headers=headers, timeout=5)
-    except:
-        # If anything goes wrong keep the URL intact
-        return url
-
-    if ret.url != url:
-        logging.debug("Removed redirection from: " + url + " to: " + ret.url)
-
-    # Return the URL that the page was downloaded from
-    return ret.url
-
 
 def _remove_trackers_query(query_str):
     """
@@ -189,12 +158,11 @@ def process_media_body(tt_iter, remove_trackers):
                 # Only keep hashtag text
                 tweet_text += tag_text
             else:
-                # This is a real link
-                url = deredir_url(tag.get('href'))
+                # This is a real link, keep url
                 if remove_trackers:
-                    tweet_text += clean_url(url)
+                    tweet_text += clean_url(tag.get('href'))
                 else:
-                    tweet_text += url
+                    tweet_text += tag.get('href')
         else:
             logging.warning("No handler for tag in twitter text: " + tag.prettify())
 
@@ -458,7 +426,7 @@ def main(argv):
     if tweets_and_replies:
         url += '/with_replies'
 
-    # Download twitter page of user
+    # Download twitter page of user.
     try:
         twit_account_page = session.get(url, headers=headers, timeout=HTTPS_REQ_TIMEOUT)
     except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: