user_shortener -- roll your own

Since is.gd is tor-hostile and ur1.ca is http only,
I ran out of 3rd party ideas. Like my wife says:
"What you don't do yourself, you do later"
write a user_shortener.py file with a shorten(long_url)
that returns a short url. May the source be with you.

.gitignore

@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@ README.html
 *.swp
 *~
 *.conf
+user_shortener.py

feed2twister.conf.example

@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ max_new_items_per_feed = 3
 # * Ur1.ca [Less tor-hostile] -- Dependencies:
 #   * https://github.com/legoktm/ur1
 #   * https://github.com/MiCHiLU/python-functools32
+# * user_shortener -- roll your own
+#   * write a user_shortener.py file with a shorten(long_url)
+#     that returns a short url. May the source be with you.
 use_shortener = False
 # tell is.gd to publicly show statistics for the shortened url
 shortener_stats = True

feed2twister.py

@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ elif shortener in ['v', 'vgd', 'v.gd']:
 elif shortener in ['ur1', 'ur1.ca', 'ur1ca']:
     import ur1
     shorten = lambda url: ur1.shorten(url)
+elif shortener in ['user_shortener', 'user']:
+    from user_shortener import shorten  # User should create user_shortener.py
 elif shortener in ['false', 'no', 'n', '0']:
     shorten = lambda url: url
 else: