Justin Plute JustinPlute

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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	#!/usr/bin/env node
	// Minimal example of loading a PEM certificate using pkijs (in node)

	// babel-polyfill needs to be loaded for pkijs
	// It uses webcrypto which needs browser shims
	require('babel-polyfill')

	const Pkijs = require('pkijs')
	const Asn1js = require('asn1js')
	const FS = require('fs')


	from optparse import OptionParser
	import sys
	import redis

	__author__ = 'Jimmy John'
	__doc__ = '''
	This is a script to make a copy of a redis db. Mainly to be used for cloning AWS Elasticache
	instancces. Elasticache seems to disable the SAVE/BGSAVE commands and you do not have access to
	the physical redis instances. The UI allows you to create 'Snapshots', but no way to download

	# Change YOUR_TOKEN to your prerender token
	# Change http://example.com (at the end of the last RewriteRule) to your website url

	<IfModule mod_headers.c>
	RequestHeader set X-Prerender-Token "YOUR_TOKEN"
	</IfModule>

	<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
	RewriteEngine On

	<!doctype html>
	<html ng-app="myApp">

	<head>
	<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.0.3/angular.min.js"></script>
	<script type="text/javascript">
	var myApp = angular.module('myApp', [], function ($interpolateProvider) {
	$interpolateProvider.startSymbol('[[');
	$interpolateProvider.endSymbol(']]');
	});

	#
	# blob : Object from MongoDB
	#
	# blob.body: Buffer
	# blob.size: length of buffer, substitute for blob.body.length
	# blob.type: MIME (Eg. audio/x-wav)
	#
	# req : Object from http
	# res : Object from http
	# _ : Object from underscore

	// Scraping Made Easy with jQuery and SelectorGadget
	// (http://blog.dtrejo.com/scraping-made-easy-with-jquery-and-selectorga)
	// by David Trejo
	//
	// Install node.js and npm:
	// http://joyeur.com/2010/12/10/installing-node-and-npm/
	// Then run
	// npm install jsdom jquery http-agent
	// node numresults.js
	//