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Bit.ly url shortener

Author:
BluePeppers
Posted:
November 29, 2010
Language:
Python
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A small function to convert a url to another shortened via the bit.ly service. Requires a username and password in django settings. 

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from django.conf import settings
from urllib import urlencode
from urllib2 import urlopen

def shorten_url(long_url):
     username = settings['BITLY_USERNAME']
     password = settings['BITLY_PASSWORD']
     bitly_url = "http://api.bit.ly/v3/shorten?login={0}&apiKey={1}&longUrl={2}&format=txt"
     req_url = urlencode(bitly_url.format(username, password, long_url)
     short_url = urlopen(req_url).read()
     return short_url

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Comments

rix (on November 29, 2010):

Shouldn't it be: settings.BITLY_USERNAME ?

For more advanced shortening you can check this out: https://github.com/jcfigueiredo/python-bitly

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