likes.py

from django import template
from django.contrib.humanize.templatetags.humanize import intcomma, intword

import facebook

register = template.Library()


@register.simple_tag
def likes(current_site):
    graph = facebook.GraphAPI()
    object = graph.get_object()
    num_likes = int(object["likes"])
    if num_likes >= 1000000:
        show_likes = intword(num_likes)
    else:
        show_likes = intcomma(num_likes)
    return "%s people" % show_likes