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+# plugin created by neersighted and lukeroge
+from util import hook
+import urllib2
+
+@hook.command
+def gitio(inp):
+    ".gitio <url> [code] -- Shorten Github URLs with git.io.  [code] is a optional custom short code."
+    split = inp.split(" ")
+    url = split[0]
+
+    try:
+        code = split[1]
+    except:
+        code = None
+
+    # if the first 8 chars of "url" are not "https://" then append "https://" to the url
+    if url[:8] != "https://":
+        url = "https://" + url
+
+    url='url='+str(url)
+    if code:
+        url = url + '&code=' + str(code)
+    req = urllib2.Request(url='http://git.io', data = url)
+
+    # try getting url, catch http error
+    try:
+        f = urllib2.urlopen(req)
+    except urllib2.HTTPError:
+        return "Failed to get URL!"
+    urlinfo = str(f.info())
+
+    # loop over the rows in urlinfo and pick out location and status (this is pretty odd code, but urllib2.Request is weird)
+    for row in urlinfo.split("\n"):
+        if row.find("Status") != -1:
+            status = row
+        if row.find("Location") != -1:
+            location = row
+
+    print status
+    if not "201" in status:
+        return "Failed to get URL!"
+
+    # this wont work for some reason, so lets ignore it ^
+
+    # return location, minus the first 10 chars
+    return location[10:]
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