See a sample article on theonion.com
I know how to create icons for these sites without using their standard widget, but how did they get the number of share, bellow each icon ? Is there an API to ask for it ?
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1Yes is the simple answer. Search the individual APIs for further details.– joeskJan 28, 2013 at 15:36
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Why the downvotes ? RTFM is a valid answer now ?– ManuJan 28, 2013 at 15:42
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I can't find any information on how to do this for twitter, for instance.– ManuJan 28, 2013 at 16:27
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Did you even search? Took me a minute to find– elssarJan 29, 2013 at 12:00
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Actually, I need to call count.json, as answered on stackoverflow– ManuJan 29, 2013 at 17:56
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use the URL :
http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=http://stackoverflow.com
It will return a JSON string :
{"count":8026,"url":"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/"}
The URL is
http://graph.facebook.com/?id=http://www.google.com
But see stackoverflow.com/questions/5699270
Google +
The URL is
https://clients6.google.com/rpc?key=YOUR_API_KEY
More social sites at https://gist.github.com/2640302
