code: def board_links_to_ids(self):
          
          resp = self.stats.session.open(
              "{0}/members/{1}/boards?{2}".format(
                  self.stats.url, self.username, urllib.urlencode({
                      "key": self.key,
                      "token": self.token,
                      "fields": "shortLink"})))
          boards = json.loads(resp.read())
  
          return [board['id'] for board in boards if self.board_links == [""]
                  or board['shortLink'] in self.board_links]
docs: Convert board links to ids