A very simple URL-shortener and QR-code generator

scratchpad.ipynb

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        "!pip install pillow\n",
        "!pip install qrcode\n",
        "\n",
        "import requests\n",
        "import qrcode\n",
        "  \n",
        "# api-endpoint\n",
        "URL = \"https://is.gd/create.php?format=json&url=\"\n",
        "\n",
        "site = input(\"Enter URL to shorten:\")\n",
        "\n",
        "URL=URL+site\n",
        "  \n",
        "# sending get request and saving the response as response object\n",
        "r = requests.get(URL)  \n",
        "# extracting data\n",
        "shortURL = r.json()[\"shorturl\"]\n",
        "\n",
        "print (\"Your URL is now accessible as \"+ shortURL)\n",
        "\n",
        "qr = qrcode.QRCode(\n",
        "        version=1,\n",
        "        box_size=10,\n",
        "        border=5)\n",
        "qr.add_data(shortURL)\n",
        "qr.make(fit=True)\n",
        "img = qr.make_image(fill='black', back_color='white')\n",
        "# img.save('qrcode001.png')\n",
        "print(\"Here is also QR-code for this URL:\")\n",
        "img"
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            "Requirement already satisfied: pillow in /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages (7.1.2)\n",
            "Collecting qrcode\n",
            "  Downloading qrcode-7.3.1.tar.gz (43 kB)\n",
            "\u001b[K     |████████████████████████████████| 43 kB 1.6 MB/s \n",
            "\u001b[?25hBuilding wheels for collected packages: qrcode\n",
            "  Building wheel for qrcode (setup.py) ... \u001b[?25l\u001b[?25hdone\n",
            "  Created wheel for qrcode: filename=qrcode-7.3.1-py3-none-any.whl size=40402 sha256=d9fe3eaac1a74bc15f8a282d156f79ee03cedbde41db67ebca9c89a319f7cfa1\n",
            "  Stored in directory: /root/.cache/pip/wheels/93/d7/39/a4111be2cfb8e679938aa671a37888b6afb1f9e7d748e94492\n",
            "Successfully built qrcode\n",
            "Installing collected packages: qrcode\n",
            "Successfully installed qrcode-7.3.1\n",
            "Enter URL to shorten:www.google.com\n",
            "Your URL is now accessible as https://is.gd/WzFWtC\n",
            "Here is also QR-code for this URL:\n"
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              "<qrcode.image.pil.PilImage at 0x7f57dbc64490>"
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