CURLINFO_REDIRECT_COUNT - get the number of redirects

Added in curl 7.9.7

Pass a pointer to a long to receive the total number of redirections that were actually followed.

int main(void) { CURL *curl = curl_easy_init(); if(curl) { CURLcode res; curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com"); curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1L); res = curl_easy_perform(curl); if(res == CURLE_OK) { long redirects; curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_REDIRECT_COUNT, &redirects); } curl_easy_cleanup(curl); } }

CURLINFO_REDIRECT_COUNT - get the number of redirects

This functionality affects all supported protocols

curl_easy_getinfo(3) returns a CURLcode indicating success or error. CURLE_OK (0) means everything was OK, non-zero means an error occurred, see libcurl-errors(3).

CURLINFO_REDIRECT_URL(3), CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION(3), curl_easy_getinfo(3), curl_easy_setopt(3) libcurl 2025-06-16 CURLINFO_REDIRECT_COUNT(3)

#include <curl/curl.h> CURLcode curl_easy_getinfo(CURL *handle, CURLINFO_REDIRECT_COUNT, long *countp);