Copyright: Google Inc. http://code.google.com/p/google-api-python-client/source/browse/samples/urlshortener/urlshortener.py

google_url_shortener.py

#!/usr/bin/python2.4
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"""Command-line sample for the Google URL Shortener API.

Simple command-line example for Google URL Shortener API that shortens
a URI then expands it.

Usage:
  $ python urlshortener.py

You can also get help on all the command-line flags the program understands
by running:

  $ python urlshortener.py --help

To get detailed log output run:

  $ python urlshortener.py --logging_level=DEBUG
"""

__author__ = 'jcgregorio@google.com (Joe Gregorio)'

import pprint
import sys

from oauth2client import client
from apiclient import sample_tools

def main(argv):
  service, flags = sample_tools.init(
      argv, 'urlshortener', 'v1', __doc__, __file__,
      scope='https://www.googleapis.com/auth/urlshortener')

  try:
    url = service.url()

    # Create a shortened URL by inserting the URL into the url collection.
    body = {'longUrl': 'http://code.google.com/apis/urlshortener/' }
    resp = url.insert(body=body).execute()
    pprint.pprint(resp)

    short_url = resp['id']

    # Convert the shortened URL back into a long URL
    resp = url.get(shortUrl=short_url).execute()
    pprint.pprint(resp)

  except client.AccessTokenRefreshError:
    print ('The credentials have been revoked or expired, please re-run'
      'the application to re-authorize')

if __name__ == '__main__':
  main(sys.argv)