From 10c32e427c23696c8be2f42c500e6f204668ae81 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan McGrath <ryan@venodesigns.net>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 03:17:47 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Added a URL shortening method that hits the is.gd API, random
 comments sprinkled throughout - coming along nicely. Perhaps fallbacks should
 be provided for when the is.gd API limit is reached?

---
 tango.py | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tango.py b/tango.py
index a844468..ff1b890 100644
--- a/tango.py
+++ b/tango.py
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ try:
 except:
     print "Tango requires the simplejson library to work. http://www.undefined.org/python/"
 
+# Should really deprecate httplib2 at some point...
 try:
     import httplib2
 except:
@@ -41,6 +42,11 @@ class setup:
         else:
             pass
     
+    def shortenURL(self, url_to_shorten):
+        # Perhaps we should have fallbacks here in case the is.gd API limit gets hit? Maybe allow them to set the host?
+        shortURL = urllib2.urlopen("http://is.gd/api.php?" + urllib.urlencode({"longurl": url_to_shorten})).read()
+        return shortURL
+
     def constructApiURL(self, base_url, params):
         queryURL = base_url
         questionMarkUsed = False