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from future.moves.urllib.request import urlopen
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2019-11-25 22:19:57 +01:00
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# this is duplicated in snipppets of code from all over the web, credit to no one
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# in particular - to all those that have gone before me!
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2017-01-30 19:51:36 +01:00
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def shorten(aUrl):
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tinyurl = 'http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url='
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2019-08-27 22:03:43 +02:00
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req = urlopen(tinyurl + aUrl)
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data = req.read()
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2019-11-25 22:19:57 +01:00
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# should be a tiny url
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return str(data)
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