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Fun.py: Short a url from command line, using fun.ly service

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  1. #!/ usr/bin/env python
  2. #
  3. #   fun.py
  4. #   short a url using http://fun.ly shortener service.
  5. #   ksaver (at identi.ca)
  6. #   Public Domain Code.
  7.  
  8. import urllib
  9. import urllib2
  10. import sys
  11.  
  12. from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup as cooksoup
  13.  
  14. def shorten(longurl):
  15.     uagent    = 'Opera/9.80 (X11; FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE i386; U; en)\
  16.     Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.62'
  17.     headers   = {'User-Agent': uagent}
  18.     shortener = 'http://fun.ly/'
  19.     webparams = {'funly': longurl}
  20.     encparams = urllib.urlencode(webparams)
  21.     urlreqst  = urllib2.Request(shortener, encparams, headers)
  22.     htmlpage  = urllib2.urlopen(urlreqst).read()
  23.     soup      = cooksoup(htmlpage)
  24.     shorturl  = soup.findAll('p')[1].text
  25.     return shorturl
  26.  
  27. def main(argv):
  28.     if len(argv) > 1:
  29.         shorturl = shorten(argv[1])
  30.     else:
  31.         longurl  = raw_input("Give me a URL: ")
  32.         shorturl = shorten(longurl)
  33.  
  34.     print "%s" % shorturl
  35.  
  36. if __name__ == '__main__':
  37.     main(sys.argv)

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