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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')

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