Get the like/share counts for a URL

get_share_counts.py

import requests, json

target_url = "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-30742506"
apis = ['http://graph.facebook.com/?id=', 'http://cdn.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=']

# http://graph.facebook.com/?id= # facebook shares api
# http://cdn.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url= # twitter shares api

for api in apis:

    url = api + target_url
    content = requests.get(url).json()

    try:
        if content['shares']:
             print 'FaceBook shares ', content['shares']
    except:
        pass

    try:
        if content['count']:
            print 'Twitter shares ', content['count']
    except:
        pass