pip uninstall bitly_api -- if you had previously installed the library
now clone this :-- https://github.com/shade234sherif/bitly-api-python
cd bitly-api-python
python setup.py
python short.py[url]
check here https://github.com/harkerbyte/bitly-free
Your username is the lowercase name shown when you login to bitly, your access token can be fetched using the following ( http://dev.bitly.com/authentication.html ):
curl -u "username:password" -X POST "https://api-ssl.bitly.com/oauth/access_token"
To run the tests either export the environment variable or set it up inline before calling nosetests:
bitly-api-python $ BITLY_ACCESS_TOKEN=<accesstoken> nosetests