#!/usr/bin/python

import urllib
import simplejson

base = 'http://whoisi.com/api/'

def callAPI(endpoint, **kw):
    arg = None
    if kw and len(kw):
        arg = '?' + urllib.urlencode(kw)

    u = urllib.urlopen(base + endpoint + arg)
    return simplejson.loads(u.read())

# get the person for a url
d = callAPI("getURLForTinyLink", app="sample",
            tiny="http://whoisi.com/l/136ca")

print d