Migrate Links From Bit.LY To Your YOURLS Install

bitly_to_yourls.py

#! /usr/bin/python

#Simple script for importing data from bitly to yourls using  bitly and yourls API.
import urllib2, json, urllib

#Add the following data
yourls_host = 'your-domain-where-yours-is-installed.com'
bitly_token = 'your-bitly-token'
yourls_signature = 'your-yourls-signature-key'

def pushto_yourls_api(data):
    url_dest = 'http://'+yourls_host+'/yourls-api.php'
    for x in data['data']['link_history']:
        link = x['link'].split('/')[3]
        long_url = x['long_url']
        values = dict(action='shorturl', url = long_url, keyword = link , signature=yourls_signature)
        req_data = urllib.urlencode(values)
        req = urllib2.Request(url_dest, req_data)
        rsp = urllib2.urlopen(req)
        content = rsp.read()
        print content



origen_url = 'https://api-ssl.bitly.com/v3/user/link_history?format=json&access_token='+bitly_token+'&limit=50'
bitly_result = True
offset = 0

while bitly_result:    
    url = origen_url + '&offset=' + str(offset)
    print url    
    response = urllib.urlopen(url)
    data = json.loads(response.read())    
    if len(data['data']['link_history']) < 50:
       bitly_result = False  
    offset +=50
    pushto_yourls_api(data)

Original code from: YOURLS/YOURLS#1742 ... though I've simply put it here for easier and better safe keeping. NOTE one issue I've run into using this code: the URL encoding on line 17 needs fixing because I sometimes get this error:

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2019' in position 108: ordinal not in range(128)

I'll eventually fix it.

I think I've managed to fix the UnicodeEncodeError. I don't know python, but from other programming experience and poking around a bit, I changed line 16 to:

values = dict(action='shorturl', url = unicode(long_url).encode('utf-8'), keyword = link , signature=yourls_signature)

The script was failing for me whenever there were accented characters. This change fixed that. It may not cover every scenario or be the most elegant, but it works.

Thanks for the script. It helped me migrate nearly 20+ links.