Bitly: links and clicks is a small script that works with the bit.ly API. This script outputs short links using the bit.ly service, and click statictics for a bit.ly link.
You need Python 3 to execute this script. If Python 3 is not yet installed then download it from http://www.python.org for your operating system and install. Once you have Python on your system, run the following commands:
python3 -m venv bitly-env
to create a new virtual environment in the directory bitly-env;
source bitly-env/bin/activate
to activate the virtual environment
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
to install the required dependencies.
If the Bitly: links and clicks virtual environment is not yet active, run
source bitly-env/bin/activate
Use
deactivate
to exit the virtual environment.
python3 main.py {url}
where {url} is any Web link for which you would like to get a short link from bit.ly or is a Bitly (default or custom) link if you want to see the click statistics on the link.
If you use a *nix-based operating system, you can do the following in your terminal:
chmox +x main.py
After this you will be able to execute the script by typing ./main.py in your terminal (as long as you are in the script's directory).
python3 main.py https://bit.ly/2M7ilwV
python3 main.py https://python.org
python3 main.py https://ibm.co/3kNB1gY
There is only one environment variable, which is contained in the .env file:
BITLY_TOKEN
It stores the bit.ly token to use by Bitly: links and clicks to talk to the bit.ly API. If you don't yet have your own token, you can get it by registering on bit.ly.