Adding bit.ly support to mu-feeder

My twitterfeed haven’t been working for  a while now. The last update was 2009-11-25, so I went out googling on ”twitterfeed replacement” and found mu-feeder. A small python script that publish your blog entrys (or whatever RSS feed that you might have) to twitter. It’s very sweet but i missed the bit.ly support.

But, since it’s open source, there’s nothing that you can’t do about it . I went out hunting and i found python-bitly. A library for the bit.ly API!

After some tweaking in the bitly file I got it working.

Step 1: Download mu-feeder and unpack it.
Step 2: Download the modified bitly file and put it in mu-feeder/shorteners (diff here)
Step 3:  Edit your mu-feeder settings.py. set URL_SHORTENING_SERVICE to ”bitly” and URL_SHORTENER_LOGIN plus URL_SHORTENER_PASSWORD to your bit.ly username and the API key that you have on bit.ly.

That’s it. Now it should work just fine .

Have a nice weekend.
Marcus