Twitter URLs expand to "__CLIENT_ERROR__"

[epicfaace]

Many t.co URLs are no longer expanding properly when using urlexpander:

>>> import urlexpander
>>> urlexpander.expand("https://t.co/lbopTtfmJG")
'http://twitter.com/__CLIENT_ERROR__'

Do you know why it's giving me __CLIENT_ERROR__?

[jacob755]

it happen on tinyurl.com too. but sometime if it just 1 url it work

[bumatic]

@epicfaace I ran in the same issue. As a workaround I found that passing head=False when calling urlexpander.expand() resolved the problem for shortened Twitter URLs.