Create short URL. see: http://code.google.com/intl/en/apis/urlshortener/

urlshotener.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import sys, urllib2,json

#
# to get your API key, access following:
# https://code.google.com/apis/console/
#
API_URL = 'https://www.googleapis.com/urlshortener/v1/url'
API_KEY = 'YOUR_API_KEY'

def main():
    if len(sys.argv) < 2:
        usage()
        sys.exit()
    print shorturl(sys.argv[1])

def usage():
    print "urlshortener.py URL"

def shorturl(longurl):
    data = json.dumps({'longUrl': sys.argv[1]})
    url = '%s?key=%s' % (API_URL, API_KEY)
    req = urllib2.Request(url, data)
    req.add_header('Content-Type', 'application/json')
    raw = urllib2.urlopen(req).read()
    return json.loads(raw)['id']

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()