From a1381008d7ee06df149f564c2aa4afb38b2a4d4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jose Manuel Delicado <jmdaweb@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 10:38:20 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Use head instead of get for URL expansion

---
 src/url_shortener/shorteners/url_shortener.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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