Using Python to shorten a URL with Google's shortening service (goo.gl):
#!/usr/bin/python
# Corey Goldberg - 2010
import json
import urllib
import urllib2
def shorten(url):
gurl = 'http://goo.gl/api/url?url=%s' % urllib.quote(url)
req = urllib2.Request(gurl, data='')
req.add_header('User-Agent', 'toolbar')
results = json.load(urllib2.urlopen(req))
return results['short_url']
if __name__ == '__main__':
print shorten('http://www.goldb.org/')
print shorten('www.yahoo.com')
You give it a URL to shorten: shorten('http://www.goldb.org/long_url')
... and it returns a shortened URL for you: 'http://goo.gl/jh4W'
