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#!/usr/bin/env python
#
# Copyright 2007-2013 The Python-Twitter Developers
#
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
# You may obtain a copy of the License at
#
# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
#
# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
# limitations under the License.
'''A class that defines the default URL Shortener.
TinyURL is provided as the default and as an example.
'''
import urllib
# Change History
#
# 2010-05-16
# TinyURL example and the idea for this comes from a bug filed by
# acolorado with patch provided by ghills. Class implementation
# was done by bear.
#
# Issue 19 http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/issues/detail?id=19
#
class ShortenURL(object):
'''Helper class to make URL Shortener calls if/when required'''
def __init__(self,
userid=None,
password=None):
'''Instantiate a new ShortenURL object
Args:
userid: userid for any required authorization call [optional]
password: password for any required authorization call [optional]
'''
self.userid = userid
self.password = password
def Shorten(self,
longURL):
'''Call TinyURL API and returned shortened URL result
Args:
longURL: URL string to shorten
Returns:
The shortened URL as a string
Note:
longURL is required and no checks are made to ensure completeness
'''
result = None
f = urllib.urlopen("http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=%s" % longURL)
try:
result = f.read()
finally:
f.close()
return result
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