So far I’m using this code, which seems to work fine:

def expand_shortened_url(url):

    headers = {"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0", }

    params = {

        "th": "1",

        "psc": "1"

    }



    s = requests.Session()

    s.keep_alive = False

    try:

        if "amzn.to" in url:

            response = s.head(url, headers=headers, params=params, timeout=15, allow_redirects=True)

            return response.url

        else:

            response = s.get(url, headers=headers, params=params, timeout=15, allow_redirects=True)

            return response.url

    except Exception as e:

        logger.error(str(e))

        return None

However I would like to use the ScrapeOps API to make these requests.
I tried to implement something like this for scraping:

def scrapeops_url(url):

    payload = {'api_key': os.environ["API_KEY"], 'url': url, 'country': 'it'}

    proxy_url = 'https://proxy.scrapeops.io/v1/?' + urlencode(payload)

    return proxy_url 

But it doesn’t work with expand. Would anyone have any idea how to do this?

I hope someone can give me suggestions for building my bot; I am a student and I am self-taught about Python programming, as it has never been mentioned to me. I hope the code I wrote is clear enough as is the question I asked. I thank anyone who wants to help me.