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Created March 24, 2011 21:46
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Shorten a URL using goo.gl
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googl.py
#!/usr/bin/python
from urllib2 import urlopen, Request
from urllib import quote
from simplejson import loads
def shorten(url):
u = urlopen(Request('http://goo.gl/api/url', 'url=%s' % quote(url), {'User-Agent':'toolbar'}))
a = loads(u.read())
return a['short_url']
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omarish commented Mar 24, 2011

Simplified version of http://segfault.in/2010/10/shorten-urls-using-google-and-python/.

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