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How to Shorten a Link, by hilarymason
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Shorten a link!

This exercise will walk you through giving the bitly API a long URL and getting back a short link.

Shortening a URL is very straightforward -- you give the API the long URL (the characters that you see above the page) and it gives you back a short URL that redirects to that long URL.

Instructions

The shorten API endpoint runs a function that looks for a longUrl and returns a short URL.

Using the example, change the longUrl parameter to be a link to a web page that you've enjoyed recently (possibly even this one)! The longUrl must contain the full URL, including the 'http://' protocol.

The JSON response is a dictionary with several values. Try printing just the short link, which you can find in the ['data']['url'] key.

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