"ImportError: cannot import name 'Connection'

Sorry if this is really obvious, I'm new to Python. When I try to import the bitly_api library into my application I get the above error. To narrow down the problem (in case it was one of the other libraries I was using) I created a new program with just 'import bitly_api' in it, nothing else. I still get the error below.

`"C:\Program Files\Python35\python.exe" C:/Users/julianl/Documents/Python/test_bitly_api.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Users/julianl/Documents/Python/test_bitly_api.py", line 12, in
import bitly_api
File "C:\Program Files\Python35\lib\site-packages\bitly_api__init__.py", line 1, in
from bitly_api import Connection, BitlyError, Error
ImportError: cannot import name 'Connection'

Process finished with exit code 1`

I'm on Windows 10, Python 3.5.1, using the PyCharm Community Edition 2016.2.3 IDE, and bitly_api library v0.3.

Hi. I'm having the same problem with using python 3.5.2 with bitly_api.

from bitly_api import bitly_api
python 3.5 windows
+1

Approved. Windows 10 x64, PyCharm 2016.3 Python 3.5.2

@mithun-dhali-cookifi

@scott-plutovr @mithun-dhali-cookifi @jawwolfe @julianl28
Roughly fixed. No guaranteed backward compability. Use on your own risk.
Tested on Python 3.5.2
Problem with imports and unicode
https://goo.gl/AYsH7H

I had the same problem and given the lack of support for this library, I've switched to https://github.com/ellisonleao/pyshorteners

Uses requests, so easier to mock API calls for testing
Works with Python 3.5
Looks like it's still maintained (last activity on September)

It arguably adds some code I don't need for the others shorteners, but if one day I want to switch to another service, there is normalised API.

Same problem on OSX using Python 3.5.2
@TheGuyverjoke is there a pull-request with the changes that created the zip file linked to?

I ended up using my own small snippet. Since it was not that complex i avoided using any lib.


def shorten(uri):
    query_params = {
        'access_token': settings.BITLY_OAUTH2_TOKEN,
        'longUrl': uri
    }

    endpoint = 'https://api-ssl.bitly.com/v3/shorten'
    response = requests.get(endpoint, params=query_params, verify=False)

    data = response.json()


    if not data['status_code'] == 200:
        logger.error("Unexpected status_code: {} in bitly response. {}".format(data['status_code'], response.text))

    return data['data']['url']

@szabgab

@szabgab You can use code from master branch. Since PyPI has non >Python3.5 compatible code with tag v0.3

@mithun-dhali-cookifi

@TheGuyverjoke thanks. For now I am good with the snippet provided by @mithun-dhali-cookifi

@mithun-dhali-cookifi

@mithun-dhali-cookifi that one has a requests dependency and the url is not encoded so longer urls which contains &, ? will not be shortened.

Here is an improved solution: https://gist.github.com/VISWESWARAN1998/24af6f2aa01f43f84c6850718593deb3

@VISWESWARAN1998

@VISWESWARAN1998

http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/quickstart/#passing-parameters-in-urls
params are automatically escaped/encoded by requests.
The solution is functionally correct and we have been using it on our production site.

The implementation does require requests. But since requests is very popular and we were already using it, it made sense for us.

There may be some new library available. I have not checked recently.

This repo seems abandoned by its original creator.
I have cloned it and merged in at least some pull requests here: https://github.com/jimmy927/bitly-api-python

At the writing point in time i got it working.

@jimmy927

@jimmy927 I've cloned on macOS and installed (pip install --upgrade -e /pathto/bitly-api-python/), but get No module named 'bitly_api' error when importing. Any idea what the issue is?

@jimmy927

@jimmy927 I've cloned on macOS and installed (pip install --upgrade -e /pathto/bitly-api-python/), but get No module named 'bitly_api' error when importing. Any idea what the issue is?

My clone is not available on PyPI ( i think ...)
So run this instead: pip install git+git://github.com/jimmy927/bitly-api-python

I changed the documentation accordingly.

Awesome that worked - cheers :)

@jimmy927

Had the same issue but the API provided by @jimmy927 worked perfectly you saved my life.

@jimmy927

@jimmy927

Perhaps you could release it on pypi. How to include this on requirement.txt for a herku python app ?

@jimmy927

@jimmy927

How to include this on requirement.txt for a herku python app ?

Does it work if you put "git+git://github.com/jimmy927/bitly-api-python" in your requirements.txt ?
I works for me on Google App Engine.

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