Python bit.ly wrapper

This is a thin Python wrapper for the bit.ly api. Basic usage looks like this:

>>> import bitlyapi
>>> b = bitlyapi.BitLy(api_user, api_key)
>>> url = 'http://www.google.com/'
>>> res = b.shorten(longUrl=url)
>>> 
>>> print res[url]['shortUrl']
http://bit.ly/6Hwstb

The return from any method call is a dict containing the results of decoding the JSON returned from bit.ly. For example:

>>> import pprint
>>> pprint.pprint(res)
{'http://www.google.com/': {'hash': '2V6CFi',
                            'shortCNAMEUrl': 'http://bit.ly/6Hwstb',
                            'shortKeywordUrl': '',
                            'shortUrl': 'http://bit.ly/6Hwstb',
                            'userHash': '6Hwstb'}}

You can supply arbitrary keywords to method calls and they will be passed to the bit.ly REST API:

>>> res = b.shorten(longUrl=url,keyword='mycustomkeyword')

License

Copyright (C) 2010 Lars Kellogg-Stedman

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.