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/app-index.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() ''' -----------------------------OUTPUT------------------------ python url_shortener.py https://www.wikipedia.org/ https://tinyurl.com/bif4t9 '''