source: plinkpot/linkpot @ 51

#!/usr/bin/env python

import urllib
import re


def check_link(url):
    # Get the URL to check it "works"
    urllib.urlopen(url)

pot_re = re.compile(r'Your quick url is <a href="(http://linkpot.net/.*?)"')

def linkpot(url):
    post_data = urllib.urlencode({'url': url})
    res = urllib.urlopen('http://linkpot.net/add/', post_data).read()
    pot = pot_re.search(res).group(1)
    return pot

if __name__ == '__main__':
    import sys
    try:
        check_link(sys.argv[1])
        print linkpot(sys.argv[1])
    except Exception:
        sys.exit(1)