get facebook like count

get_fb_likecount.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import urllib, simplejson as json

likeurl = 'http://zenphoto.rdandy.com/yaya-2012-07-14/'
query = 'select like_count,total_count,share_count from link_stat where url="%s"' % likeurl
params = urllib.urlencode({'format': 'json','query': query})
url = 'https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?%s' % params
result = urllib.urlopen(url)
res = json.loads(result.read())

"""
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print res
[
  {
    like_count: 3,
    total_count: 4,
    share_count: 1
  }
]

res[0]['like_count']
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"""