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From: Andreas Perstinger <andipersti@gmail.com>
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nishant bhakta <bhaktanishant@gmail.com> wrote:

>I have a link that will redirect to any-other link and i have to work
>with that final link. For example if i have a link "www.bit.ly/2V6CFi"
>that will redirect to "www.google.com". Here i want that i take
>"www.bit.ly/2V6CFi" and find the final redirect link and append
>"#q=python" to that link and produce an output that is
>"www.google.com/#q=python".

For bitly links you need to use their API:
http://dev.bitly.com/links.html#v3_expand

There is a python module for interacting with it:
https://github.com/bitly/bitly-api-python

Bye, Andreas