Create short urls and lmgtfy urls in your Hangupsbot

lmgtfy.py

import asyncio

from urllib.request import urlopen

import plugins


def _initialise(bot):
    plugins.register_user_command(["lmgtfy"])
    plugins.register_user_command(["shorten"])


def lmgtfy(bot, event, *args):
    search = "http://lmgtfy.com/?q={}".format("+".join(args))
    message = yield from short_url(search)
    yield from bot.coro_send_message(event.conv, message)


def shorten(bot, event, *args):
    message = yield from short_url(args[0])
    yield from bot.coro_send_message(event.conv, message)


@asyncio.coroutine
def short_url(url):
    f = urlopen("http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url={}".format(url))
    res = f.read().decode('utf-8')
    if res:
        return res
    return url