Facebook Likes for Excel using DataNitro

functions.py

""" Facebook likes for Excel using DataNitro
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    http://www.seeinteractive.com/blog/get-facebook-likes-in-excel-using-datanitro
"""
import urllib2
import json

def facebook_likes(url):
    facebook_url = "https://graph.facebook.com/?ids=" + url
    raw_data = urllib2.urlopen(facebook_url).read()
    formatted_data = json.loads(raw_data)
    likes = formatted_data[url].get('shares', 0)
    return likes