tinypng.py

gistfile1.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import tempfile
import sys
import urllib2
import shutil
import json
import base64

def request(api_key, data):
    request = urllib2.Request("https://api.tinify.com/shrink", data)
    base64string = base64.encodestring('%s:%s' % ("api", api_key)).replace('\n', '')
    request.add_header("Authorization", "Basic %s" % base64string)
    rec = json.loads(urllib2.urlopen(request).read())
    return urllib2.urlopen(rec['output']['url']).read()

api_key = sys.argv[1]
input_file = sys.argv[2]

with open(input_file, 'r') as read_fh:
    data = read_fh.read()
with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(delete=False) as write_fh:
    write_fh.write(request(api_key, data))
    output_file = write_fh.name
shutil.move(output_file, input_file)