It doesn't work in the current form on python 3.3. There are some changes required, like bitly_api.bitly_api instead of bitly_api, replacing urllib2 with urllib.request, replacing cStringIO with io.BytesIO, etc.

If I call:

  link_clicks(link="http://bitly.com/Wozuff", rollup=False, unit="hour", units=-1)

with an integer units parameter (as noted in your docs), it throws:

...
bitly_api/bitly_api.pyc in _utf8(s)
...
---> 24     assert isinstance(s, str)

If you provide a string for units then

_call_oauth2_metrics(self, endpoint, params, unit, units, tz_offset, rollup, limit)
...
--> 632   assert isinstance(units, int), "Unit (%r) must be integer" % units

throws an error.

Why does _uft8 assume that every parameter is a string?

I notice that there does not seem to be a way to set the tag for links through the client, only bundles, yet from reading online bundles are deprecated.

Is there away to set/get tags using the API right now?

Thx.

Username and AccessToken are imported using environment variables. If they're missing then a useful error is raised. README updated to explain how to set this up, doc added in test_bitly_api.py to explain how to run the test.

One test changed in test_bitly_api as the 'test1' key is a valid bitly key, maybe this entered the keyspace? I've added a longer random string, I don't know if this keeps the same meaning to the test (this needs validation).

Having just checked out the repo I ran the tests and received:

$ nosetests test_bitly_api.py EE..

ERROR: test_bitly_api.testApi ... raise BitlyError(data.get('status_code', 500), data.get('status_txt', 'UNKNOWN_ERROR')) BitlyError: RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED ... ERROR: test_bitly_api.testExpand ... raise BitlyError(data.get('status_code', 500), data.get('status_txt', 'UNKNOWN_ERROR')) BitlyError: RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED

Can your API key be whitelisted to allow these tests to pass, or perhaps you should force us to use our own API key (environment variable? local config file?), such that all the tests pass on a clean checkout?

I'm continually getting this error when I try to shorten a url. My code is as follows:

import bitly_api as bitly

bitly_api = bitly.Connection(access_token='R_fsjlkasdfsd')
bitly_api.shorten('http://example.com')

Which returns this traceback:

>>> bitly_api/bitly_api.py", line 87, in shorten
    data = self._call(self.host, 'v3/shorten', params, self.secret)
  File "/Users/brianabelson/.virtualenvs/newslynx/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bitly_api/bitly_api.py", line 789, in _call
    data.get('status_txt', 'UNKNOWN_ERROR'))
BitlyError: INVALID_ARG_ACCESS_TOKEN

I'm assuming it's not the library, but nothing seems to work (even repeatedly resetting my access token)

Hi,

I went through the developer documentation, realized that there's no direct endpoints that provides aggregated information.

So I went ahead and used ThreadPool with a concurrency of 5 to try to improve sequential calls of all 11 endpoints I needed.

Here's the gist, let me know if there's any way to do it from the client side that could improve it!

https://gist.github.com/woozyking/4ad49ded84effdce6ef3

Or, please point me to the right documentation where there are aggregated endpoints :)

I had a couple of older accounts and found that I'm getting all kinds of results.

Worked.

import bitly_api
c = bitly_api.Connection('chavneor1','R_xxxx')
# or to use oauth2 endpoints
c.shorten('http://www.google.com/')

Now dosn't work.

import bitly_api
c = bitly_api.Connection('chavneor1','R_xxxx')
# or to use oauth2 endpoints
c.shorten('http://www.google.com/')

 File "C:\Users\Casey\Envs\campuslists-website\lib\site-packages\bitly_api\bitly_api.py", line 87, in shorten
   data = self._call(self.host, 'v3/shorten', params, self.secret)
 File "C:\Users\Casey\Envs\campuslists-website\lib\site-packages\bitly_api\bitly_api.py", line 789, in _call
    data.get('status_txt', 'UNKNOWN_ERROR'))
BitlyError: INVALID_LOGIN

Nothing seemed to change. Also trying to assign the user or key via a variable throws unknown errors.

Ideas?

Getting this error when trying to install from my requirements.txt:

Downloading/unpacking bitly-api==0.2 (from -r requirements.txt (line 71))
  Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement bitly-api==0.2 (from -r requirements.txt (line 71)) (from versions: 0.3)

I lock versions via pip freeze and I shouldn't have to upgrade to 0.3 when I know that 0.2 works fine, especially when all I'm trying to do is set up my project on a new server. Any reason why 0.2 was removed from PyPi?

• Drop PyCURL, since it's not Py3k compatible.
• Drop bitly_http module, just inline urllib(2) code.
• Steal *_types lists from six.
• Update isinstance calls.
• Update excepts.
• Decode response body as utf-8.
• Drop simplejson import, just use json
• Should be compatible with >=2.6.

The pep8 module discovered this duplicated method, I'm not sure which of the two endpoints are the correct choice:

 class Connection(object):
    def bundle_collaborator_remove(self, bundle_link, collaborator):
        """remove a collaborator from a bundle"""
        params = dict(bundle_link=bundle_link)
        params["collaborator"] = collaborator
        data = self._call_oauth2_metrics("v3/bundle/collaborator_remove", params)
        return data
    def bundle_collaborator_remove(self, bundle_link, collaborator):
        """remove a pending collaborator from a bundle"""
        params = dict(bundle_link=bundle_link)
        params["collaborator"] = collaborator
        data = self._call_oauth2_metrics("v3/bundle/pending_collaborator_remove", params)
        return data

With python-3 it throws error ImportError: cannot import name 'Connection'. There was a pull request (#41 ) made 2 years ago but hasn't merged yet.

Is this this project/library dead ? If so please remove the link to this page from https://dev.bitly.com/code_libraries.html

The Connection._call timeout argument defaults to 5000 but seems to be unused. https://github.com/bitly/bitly-api-python/blob/master/bitly_api/bitly_api.py#L774