Get Google Plus Ones

get_plus_ones.py

from urllib2 import urlopen
import re

def get_plus_ones(url):
    """
    Get Google Plus ones
    """

    # Build the url
    url = 'https://plusone.google.com/_/+1/fastbutton?url=' + url

    # Open said URL
    response = urlopen(url)

    # Get the data
    data = response.read()

    # Build the filter, we want what's in this: {c: 1234.0}, where 1234 is the number of plus ones
    filter = re.compile("\{c: \d+.")
    result = filter.findall(data)

    # So now we should have something that looks like ['{c: 1234.'], so we want to grab out the characters after 4 that
    # are not a period.
    ones = result[0][4:len(result[0])-1]

    try:
        return int(ones)
    except:
        return 0

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