Welcome to Microurl’s documentation!

python library for url minification.

Features

  • Google
    • URL Minifier
    • QR Generator
  • Bitly
    • URL Minifier

Installation

Install microurl via pip

$ pip install microurl

Or, if you want the code that is currently on GitHub

git clone git://github.com/micropyramid/microurl.git
cd microurl
python setup.py install

Contents:

Google Minifier

First, you’ll want to head over to google or bily or supr and register an application!

After you register, grab your applications Consumer Key and Consumer Secret from the application details tab.

First, you’ll want to import your desired minfier from microurl

from microurl import google_mini

Basic Usage

Function definitions (i.e. google_mini()) can be found by reading over microurl/google.py

minified = google_mini('validurl', 'Google_API_KEY')

its as simple as that.

QR Generator

qr_url = qrcode(url)

Bitly Minifier

1. Authentication for bitly

from microurl import bitlyauthentication

authentication = bitlyauthentication(client_id, client_secret, redirect_uri)

auth_url=authentication.authorization_url()

open auth_url in your browser.After authorizing app, you will be redirected to redirect_url with code perameter.

access_token=authentication.get_accesstoken_from_code(code) # code that you get to redirect_url in the above step

2. Authentication using username and password

access_token=authentication.get_accesstoken_from_username_pwd(bitlyusername or login email,password)

Basic Usage

Function definitions (i.e. shorturl()) can be found by reading over microurl/bitly.py

from microurl import bitlyapi

bitly=bitlyapi(access_token) # access_token is getting from previous steps

minified=bitly.shorturl(longurl,domain)['url'] # domain is optional here

To get detail information of bitlylink.

bitly.url_info(bitlylink,expand_user='True | False',hash='one or more bitly hashes') # expand_user,hash are optional here

To get the number of clicks on a single bitly link.

bitly.link_clicks(bitlylink, unit="day", units=10, timezone=-4, limit=20, unit_reference_ts="now")

# here except bitlylink all are optional

To get the number of shares on a single bitly link.

bitly.link_shares(bitlylink, unit="day", units=10, timezone=-4, limit=20, unit_reference_ts="now")

# here except bitlylink all are optional

To get loggedin user info

bitly.user_info()

To get user link history in reverse chronological order.

bitly.user_linkhistory(bitlylink, limit=20, offset=1, created_after='1381000000', created_before='1381844314', expand_client_id=True, archived="both", private="both")

# here all fields are optional

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