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Author: skimran2000

APIScripts/URLShortener API/url_shortener.py

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+from __future__ import with_statement
+
+# importing contextlib module as it contains ContextManager class 
+import contextlib
+
+try:
+	from urllib.parse import urlencode		# For parsing the URLs
+except ImportError:
+	from urllib import urlencode
+try:
+	from urllib.request import urlopen		# For opening and closing URLs
+except ImportError:							# Convert a mapping object to a percent-encoded ASCII text string
+	from urllib2 import urlopen
+import sys
+
+def make_tiny(url):							# Converting the given url to short url
+	request_url = ('http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?' + 
+	urlencode({'url':url}))
+	with contextlib.closing(urlopen(request_url)) as response:
+		return response.read().decode('utf-8')
+
+def main():
+	s=input("\nEnter the url to convert: ")		# Input the url to be converted
+	l=[]
+	l.append(s)
+	for tinyurl in map(make_tiny, l[0:]):			# Prints the converted url
+		print("\nShort url is : ",tinyurl,"\n")
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+	main()