Peter S. ElvisLives

Share Counts

I have always struggled with getting all the various share buttons from Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Pinterest, etc to align correctly and to not look like a tacky explosion of buttons. Seeing a number of sites rolling their own share buttons with counts, for example The Next Web I decided to look into the various APIs on how to simply return the share count.

If you want to roll up all of these into a single jQuery plugin check out Sharrre

Many of these API calls and methods are undocumented, so anticipate that they will change in the future. Also, if you are planning on rolling these out across a site I would recommend creating a simple endpoint that periodically caches results from all of the APIs so that you are not overloading the services will requests.

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	using System;
	using System.Collections.Generic;
	using System.Configuration;
	using System.Linq;
	using CachingFramework.Redis;
	using WebApi.OutputCache.Core.Cache;

	namespace Some.Cool.NameSpace.Goes.Here
	{
	/// <summary>

	var quotes = 0;
	var maxLinks = 5;
	var firstUrl = 'http://www.imdb.com/search/title?at=0&num_votes=5000,&sort=user_rating,desc&start=1&title_type=tv_infoss';

	var x = require('casper').selectXPath;
	var fs = require('fs');
	var utils = require('utils');

	var casper = require('casper').create({
	verbose: true,

	var casper = require("casper").create(),
	viewportSizes = [
	[320,480],
	[320,568],
	[600,1024],
	[1024,768],
	[1280,800],
	[1440,900]
	],
	url = casper.cli.args[0],

	// phantomjs code to log in to Amazon
	// based on the code from this Stackoverflow answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9246438/how-to-submit-a-form-using-phantomjs
	// I'm injecting jQuery so this assumes you have jquery in your project directory

	var page = new WebPage(), testindex = 0, loadInProgress = false;

	page.onConsoleMessage = function(msg) {
	console.log(msg);
	};

	using System;
	using System.Drawing;
	using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
	using System.Windows.Forms;

	public class ScreenShot
	{
	[ComImport]
	[InterfaceType( ComInterfaceType.InterfaceIsIUnknown )]
	[Guid( "0000010d-0000-0000-C000-000000000046" )]

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