added URL shortener

README.md

@@ -203,6 +203,17 @@ python client.py
 python server.py
 ```
 
+* ### URL Shortener
+This is python script that shortens any URL provided to it.
+
+```bash
+# Takes multiple inputs and returns shortened URL for both
+python shortener.py url1 url2
+
+#Stores shortened URLs in a file
+python shortener.py url1 url2 > file.txt
+```
+
 * ### Video-downloader v1.1
 
 ### About

bin/shortener.py

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+from __future__ import with_statement
+import contextlib
+try:
+	from urllib.parse import urlencode
+except ImportError:
+	from urllib import urlencode
+try:
+	from urllib.request import urlopen
+except ImportError:
+	from urllib2 import urlopen
+import sys
+
+def make_tiny(url):
+	request_url = ('http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?' + 
+	urlencode({'url':url}))
+	with contextlib.closing(urlopen(request_url)) as response:
+		return response.read().decode('utf-8')
+
+def main():
+	for tinyurl in map(make_tiny, sys.argv[1:]):
+		print(tinyurl)
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+	main()