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URL Shortener

Description

This Python script provides a simple URL shortening functionality using the TinyURL API. It takes a long (big) URL as input and returns a shortened URL that redirects to the original URL.

How It Works

  1. The script imports the post method from the requests module, which is used to send HTTP requests.

  2. It defines a function TinyShortner(big_url), which takes a single argument big_url (the long URL to be shortened).

  3. Inside this function, it sends a POST request to the TinyURL API with the long URL as data. The API responds with a shortened URL, which is then returned by the function.

  4. If the script is run as the main module, it prompts the user to input a long URL, then passes this URL to the TinyShortner function.

  5. The shortened URL is then printed to the console.