Image URL Redirect Checker | Bulk Image Downloader

The problem with redirected image URLs

Not every image link points straight at an image. Plenty of URLs you scrape or paste are really redirects: a short link that bounces to a CDN, a tracking URL that logs a click before forwarding you on, or a hotlink-protected address that quietly sends you somewhere else. Most of the time you never notice. But when you are about to download hundreds of images in one batch, those hidden hops matter.

A redirect that fails halfway, loops back on itself, or lands on an error page turns into a wasted download and a confusing result. Running a check first means no surprises when the real batch runs.

What the Redirect Checker does

Bulk Image Downloader From URL List includes an Image URL Redirect Checker as its own tab. You paste your URLs — one per line, exactly like a task list — and press Check Redirects. The extension then follows each link through its chain, up to around twenty hops, and reports every step along the way:

The original URL you submitted.
Every intermediate hop the request passes through.
The final destination URL where the image actually lives.
The HTTP status codes for each step, so broken chains and loops are easy to spot.

Seeing the status codes is the quiet hero here. A clean chain ending in a 200 is good. A chain that ends in a 404, or one that keeps redirecting without resolving, is a link you can drop before it costs you anything.

Getting your results out

When the check finishes, hit Copy Results to put the full report on your clipboard. From there you can paste it into a spreadsheet, attach it to a support ticket, or use it to build a cleaned-up task list that only contains URLs resolving to real images. Nothing is locked inside the extension — the report is yours to reuse however your workflow needs.

A simple habit that saves whole batches

The most useful time to run the Redirect Checker is right before a large download, especially on scraped lists. CDN swaps, tracking redirects, and hotlink protection all show up here first. Spend a minute checking the chain, prune the dead and looping links, and your actual download run stays fast and predictable.

It pairs naturally with the 404 checker: use the Redirect Checker to confirm where links really go, and the 404 checker to confirm the destination is alive. Together they turn a messy URL list into a list you can trust.

Run the checker before a long batch

CDN and hotlink redirects can turn one pasted URL into three hops before the real image bytes arrive. The Redirect Checker surfaces the final URL and status code so you can drop broken links from the list early. Pair it with the 404 checker when you are validating an entire gallery pulled from an old blog export.