diff --git a/src/url_shortener/shorteners/url_shortener.py b/src/url_shortener/shorteners/url_shortener.py
index 8bb0d678..f825af0f 100644
--- a/src/url_shortener/shorteners/url_shortener.py
+++ b/src/url_shortener/shorteners/url_shortener.py
@@ -20,4 +20,8 @@ class URLShortener (object):
   raise NotImplementedError
 
  def unshorten(self, url):
-  return url
\ No newline at end of file
+  try:
+   r=requests.head(url, allow_redirects=True)
+   return r.url
+  except:
+   return url #we cannot expand