How to get redirecting url link with php from bit.ly

Question

I\'m trying to get url links to those bit.ly redirects. I\'ve tried to open bit.ly links with file_get_contents but it already gets content from redirected site

Answer 1

I was unaware of the bit.ly API, here is the raw way to do it:

$context = array
(
    'http' => array
    (
        'method' => 'GET',
        'max_redirects' => 1,
    ),
);

@file_get_contents('http://bit.ly/cmUTtb', null, stream_context_create($context));

echo 'Redirect to: ' . str_replace('Location: ', '', $http_response_header[6]);