google-url-shortener

how to use Google Shortener API with Python Question: I want to write an app to shorten url. This is my code: import urllib, urllib2 import json def goo_shorten_url(url): post_url = ‘https://www.googleapis.com/urlshortener/v1/url’ postdata = urllib.urlencode({‘longUrl’:url}) headers = {‘Content-Type’:’application/json’} req = urllib2.Request( post_url, postdata, headers ) ret = urllib2.urlopen(req).read() return json.loads(ret)[‘id’] when I run the code …