a small tiny cli wrapper to goole url shortener api

url-shortener.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import json, sys, urllib2

url = sys.argv[1]
apiKey = 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
data = {
    'longUrl' : url    
}
req = urllib2.Request('https://www.googleapis.com/urlshortener/v1/url?key='+apiKey)
req.add_header('Content-Type', 'application/json')

response = json.loads(urllib2.urlopen(req, json.dumps(data)).read())
print response['id']