shorturl.py

shorturl.py

import httplib2
try: 
    import json
except:
    import simplejson as json

def short_url(long_url='http://raisethehammer.org')
    """
    Takes a long URL and returns a short URL.
    Uses the Google URL Shortener API: http://code.google.com/apis/urlshortener/
    """

    h = httplib2.Http('/path/to/.cache')
    url = 'https://www.googleapis.com/urlshortener/v1/url?key=<api-key>'

    req_headers = {"content-type": "application/json" }

    data = { "longUrl": long_url }

    response, content = h.request(url, 'POST', json.dumps(data), headers=req_headers)

    if response.status != 200:
        raise Exception('HTTP Error', response.status)

    jsonobj = json.loads(content)
    return jsonobj['id']