Messing around with goo.gl URL shortener API

google_url.py

import json, urllib2, pprint

"""
Mess around with goo.gl shortener API
"""

kind = "SHORTEN"

key = "YOUR_KEY"
api_url = "https://www.googleapis.com/urlshortener/v1/url?key=%s" % key
long_url = "http://www.google.com/"
short_url = "http://goo.gl/fbsS"

if kind == "SHORTEN":
    req = urllib2.Request(api_url, json.dumps({"longUrl": long_url}),
                        {'content-type': 'application/json'})
    res = json.loads(urllib2.urlopen(req).read())
elif kind == "EXPAND":
    api_url = api_url + "&shortUrl=%s" % short_url
    res = json.loads(urllib2.urlopen(api_url).read())
elif kind == "STATS":
    api_url = api_url + "&shortUrl=%s&projection=FULL" % short_url
    res = json.loads(urllib2.urlopen(api_url).read())
    
pprint.pprint(res)