bitly.sh -- shorten URLs without an API key

bitly.sh

#!/bin/bash
# @author dsc@less.ly

if test "$1"; then
    LONG_URL="$1"
else
    read LONG_URL
fi
BITLY="http://bit.ly/?s=&keyword=&url="

function uri () {
    python -c "import urllib; print urllib.quote('$1')"
}

# Look for:
# <input id="shortened-url" value="http://bit.ly/bNbWTp" />
curl -s --url "${BITLY}$(uri "$LONG_URL")" | \
sed -nE -e '/id="shortened-url"/ {s/^.*value="([^"]+)".*$/\1/g;p;}'