from urllib import urlencode
from urllib2 import urlopen
def shorten_url(long_url):
username = 'aamir******' # use your Username/password
password = '******'
bitly_url = "http://api.bit.ly/v3/shorten?login={0}&apiKey={1}&longUrl={2}&format=txt"
req_url = urlencode(bitly_url.format(username, password, long_url))
short_url = urlopen(req_url).read()
return short_url
"""
Then call the function and it will return the shortened URL of the URL you pass in as an parameter..
"""
print shorten_url('http://google.com/amirhussain')
