Bulk-transform URLs to short(ened) URLs via tinyurl

bulk-tinyurl-readme.txt

# TRANSFORMS A SET OF URLS TO TINY-URLS (SHORTENED URLS)
# adapted from https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/python-url-shortener-using-tinyurl-api/

tiny.py

# TRANSFORMS A SET OF URLS TO TINY-URLS (SHORTENED URLS)
# adapted from https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/python-url-shortener-using-tinyurl-api/

# Input: urls.txt with one URL per line
# Output: tiny_urls.txt, with the original URL and the shortened one

from __future__ import with_statement                                                            
  
import contextlib 
  
try: 
    from urllib.parse import urlencode           
  
except ImportError: 
    from urllib import urlencode 
try: 
    from urllib.request import urlopen 
  
except ImportError: 
    from urllib2 import urlopen 
  
#import sys 
  
import time
  
def make_tiny(url): 
    request_url = ('http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?' + urlencode({'url':url}))     
    with contextlib.closing(urlopen(request_url)) as response:                       
        return response.read().decode('utf-8 ')                                       

con = open('urls.txt', 'r',encoding='latin1').readlines()

urls = []
for i in con: urls.append(i.replace('\n', '').replace('\t',''))

f=open('tiny_urls.txt','w',encoding='utf-8')

for i in urls:
    tiny='NA'
    print(i)
    if (len(i)>3): tiny=make_tiny(i)
        
    f.write(i+'\t'+tiny+'\n')
    time.sleep(.5)
    
f.close()

tiny_urls.txt

http://tilburgsciencehub.com	http://tinyurl.com/yagoooq4
http://hannesdatta.com	http://tinyurl.com/yanuuq9x
https://thesis.hannesdatta.com	http://tinyurl.com/ya6qyp8k
	NA

urls.txt

http://tilburgsciencehub.com
http://hannesdatta.com
https://thesis.hannesdatta.com