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Shorten the url using bitly and Python 3.x
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| # SWAMI KARUPPASWAMI THUNNAI | |
| import urllib.request | |
| import json | |
| class Shorterner: | |
| """ | |
| This class is used to shorten the long urls | |
| """ | |
| __genericAccessToken = None | |
| __url = None # This is the actual url supplied by the user | |
| __encoded_url = None | |
| __shortened_url = None | |
| __status_code = None | |
| __status_txt = None | |
| __bitly_url = None | |
| __access_token = None | |
| # set the access token via constructor | |
| def __init__(self,token,url): | |
| self.__genericAccessToken = token | |
| self.__url = url | |
| self.__access_token = token | |
| # now we will construct the url | |
| # now we must perform url encoding | |
| self.__url = self.__url.replace(" ","%20") | |
| self.__url = self.__url.replace("!","%21") | |
| self.__url = self.__url.replace("#","%23") | |
| self.__url = self.__url.replace("$","%24") | |
| self.__url = self.__url.replace("&","%26") | |
| self.__url = self.__url.replace("'","%27") | |
| self.__url = self.__url.replace("(","%28") | |
| self.__url = self.__url.replace(")","%29") | |
| self.__url = self.__url.replace("*","%2A") | |
| self.__url = self.__url.replace("+","%2B") | |
| self.__url = self.__url.replace(",","%2C") | |
| self.__url = self.__url.replace("/","%2F") | |
| self.__url = self.__url.replace(":","%3A") | |
| self.__url = self.__url.replace(";","%3B") | |
| self.__url = self.__url.replace("=","%3D") | |
| self.__url = self.__url.replace("?","%3F") | |
| self.__url = self.__url.replace("@","%40") | |
| self.__url = self.__url.replace("[","%5B") | |
| self.__url = self.__url.replace("]","%5D") | |
| # now assign the encoded url | |
| self.__encoded_url = "https://api-ssl.bitly.com/v3/shorten?access_token="+self.__access_token+"&longUrl="+self.__url | |
| # This method is used to start shortening the url | |
| def start(self): | |
| if self.__access_token == None: | |
| print("[*] Acceess Token is needed! Please Update the code with a token") | |
| response = urllib.request.urlopen(self.__encoded_url) | |
| result = response.read() | |
| # we will receive the data as bytes and we will decode it to string | |
| result = result.decode("utf-8") | |
| data = json.loads(result) | |
| self.__status_code = data['status_code'] # set the status code | |
| self.status_txt = data['status_txt'] # set the status text | |
| self.__bitly_url = data['data']['url'] | |
| # This method is used to get the shortened url | |
| def get_shortened_url(self): | |
| return self.__bitly_url |
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You may ask:
How to use this to shorten the ur???
Just download the code and in your program add these lines
shorten = Shorterner(access_token,final_url) # final_url is your url which is to be shortened
shorten.start()
result = shorten.get_shortened_url() # you will get the shortened url
Offlicial bitly_api client seems to be incompatible for various Python 3.x versions and many users have posted the issue which is still not solved see here: [https://github.com/bitly/bitly-api-python/issues/39] so why I came across with my own solution. Hope it helps some one!
Kind regards,
Visweswaran Nagasivam