See how many times a URL has been shared on Facebook

http://graph.facebook.com/http://news.ycombinator.com

by jf • 15 years ago

305 55 15 years ago

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abava• 15 years ago

Looks like hashbangs mess up the counting; e.g. http://graph.facebook.com/http://www.twitter.com/ and http://graph.facebook.com/http://www.twitter.com/#!michaelcg...

TomasSedovic• 15 years ago

You must encode it properly:

http://graph.facebook.com/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.twitter.com%2F%23...

Note that encoding '#' as %23 is sufficient.

However, it doesn't show any shares and I'm not sure if that means nobody shared your twitter URL on facebook or if there's another problem somewhere.

dotBen• 15 years ago

Statistically speaking it would be flawed to use this to compare and prioritize a list of urls in order to rank them by interestingness/attention/etc.

The reason is that pages that have Facebook like buttons embedded on them are statistically speaking going to have a higher chance of getting shared than those that don't (such as Hacker News - which doesn't have such buttons).

I guess it depends what you might use this for, but to me it seems to only have limited value.

bergie4• 15 years ago

We've been doing that on Maemo News (http://maemo.org/news/) for a few years now. Works well, especially if you couple it with local, HN-style voting and assign a separate weight for each relevancy source

zaidf• 15 years ago

Is there a way to get sum of the share count for all pages in a domain?

This one only reflects share count of the specific page--or only the homepage if you pass a domain.

terryjsmith• 15 years ago

We're working on this: http://www.jaxified.com/. Right now we're focused on blogs since it's easy to see new content, but we're working on adding support for static sites as well.

matclayton2• 15 years ago

Add the domain to facebook.com/insights and then you can download an excel spreadsheet with the daily totals, just sum these to get the total shares/likes for a domain

jeffwidman• 15 years ago

And if you want to parse the Insights data into pretty pictures and graphs that are easier to analyse than raw data, sign up for our private beta at PageLever.com.

alecperkins• 15 years ago

Typos even have some shares, too:

http://graph.facebook.com/http://www,google.com

necolas• 15 years ago

See how many times a URL has been tweeted on Twitter: http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=http://new...

hammock2• 15 years ago

There is a guy at Yahoo that took a long list of news articles, etc and analyzed over 40MM "Likes" this way. Pretty cool charts came out of it.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2300300

yurylifshits• 15 years ago

This guy is me :)

jsdalton2• 15 years ago

Twitter: http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=http://new...

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/cws/share-count?url=http://news.ycom...

These APIs are marked private (as opposed to Facebook's) so use at your own risk.

yahelc4• 15 years ago

I packaged a few of the private ones with this weekend project: http://sharedcount.com Unfortunately, only Facebook does URL normalization for you, so dumb things like trailing slashes have a big effect on the count.

jsdalton2• 15 years ago

> Unfortunately, only Facebook does URL normalization for you, so dumb things like trailing slashes have a big effect on the count.

Is that true?

http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=http://new...

hammock2• 15 years ago

Very nice, thanks for sharing. Bit of constructive feedback, the fact that the text box deletes itself as soon as you click in it is hella annoying,

vitovito• 15 years ago

Seeing the comment counts makes me wonder what the comments were. Is there any way to see those?

scorpion032• 15 years ago

Perhaps you'd like to also display the Google Page Rank, or something to that effect, like the shares of the domain.

Aaronontheweb• 15 years ago

Thanks for sharing these - tremendously helpful!

subway• 15 years ago

The Twitter information is also available via Topsy's public Otter API. See trackback_total:

http://otter.topsy.com/urlinfo.json?url=http://news.ycombina...

http://otter.topsy.com

abraham• 15 years ago

Google Buzz: https://www.googleapis.com/buzz/v1/activities/count?alt=json...

Which is also a public API.

ImJasonH• 15 years ago

And with this you can actually check multiple sites in one call:

https://www.googleapis.com/buzz/v1/activities/count?alt=json...

bergie4• 15 years ago

Qaiku (public API, needs authentication): http://www.qaiku.com/api/statuses/replies/byurl.json?externa...

NathanC• 15 years ago

thanks

yahelc4• 15 years ago

Also, probably goes without saying, but this method includes JSONP support: http://graph.facebook.com/http://news.ycombinator.com/?callb...

matclayton2• 15 years ago

It's a shortcut for http://graph.facebook.com/?id=abc

Looks like fb made opengraph pages first class citizens on their namespace, should be interesting to see what else they get soon,

You can also do http://graph.facebook.com/?ids=http://news.ycombinator.com,h...

To lookup multiple urls at the same time.

luciferous• 15 years ago

Yuri Lifshits made an entertaining presentation at yesterday's SHDH with data from graph.facebook.com. Link: http://ediscope.labs.yahoo.net/.

jf• 15 years ago

That's exactly how I learned that you can use http://graph.facebook.com in this way!

For those of you who weren't at SHDH, you can see Yury's talk from last night here: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/13439718 - his talk starts at 14:40.

sewerhorse• 15 years ago

http://graph.facebook.com/http://graph.facebook.com/ :)

Even http://graph.facebook.com/http://graph.facebook.com/http://g... has a few shares.

ski2mi• 15 years ago

Meta! http://graph.facebook.com/http://www.facebook.com

texec• 15 years ago

Real meta! http://graph.facebook.com/http://graph.facebook.com

pizza• 15 years ago

Too meta http://graph.facebook.com/http://graph.facebook.com/http://g...

bl4k• 15 years ago

who the hell shares a link to facebook on facebook?

"hey guys check this out"

siculars2• 15 years ago

I use that on my HN mashup... http://hnfluence.com/

Also my nyt mashup... http://influentialtimes.com/

marcuskaz• 15 years ago

What API/URL do you use to get the bit.ly counts?

seancron• 15 years ago

Probably the bit.ly API: http://code.google.com/p/bitly-api/wiki/ApiDocumentation

fibonacci1• 15 years ago

Facebook: http://graph.facebook.com/http://facebook.com

kmander• 15 years ago

Another mini-app to show this and other FB sharing data: http://www.keithmander.com/temp/socialabacus/

Much like the others posted here, but a bit more AJAX and cute graphics.

groaner• 15 years ago

Clearly their censorship efforts have failed:

http://graph.facebook.com/http://lamebook.com

jacobbijani• 15 years ago

hah, I've had lamespace.com for years (like, when MySpace was still relevant) but don't use it for anything.

jtesp• 15 years ago

Nice find. Facebook should have a morning paper about all of the changes & additions they make. They never seem to stick to any one way of doing anything and drive developers nuts!

minouye• 15 years ago

Does anyone know at what point your IP would get throttled? If so, any usage guidelines if you plan on analyzing a large url set?

sinaiman• 15 years ago

Does this only count public posts that "everyone" can see?

bergie4• 15 years ago

Here is a PHP lib for getting these counts across quite a few services: https://github.com/nemein/com_meego_planet/blob/master/calcu...

bergie4• 15 years ago

Quick usage example: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/calculate_the_impact_of_your_posts...

pippy• 15 years ago

http://graph.facebook.com/http://presentcat.com

http://graph.facebook.com/http://news.ycombinator.com

My site is more popular than HN :D

tews• 15 years ago

Is this possible to see if URL was shared/liked by currently signed in facebook user?

hentenren• 15 years ago

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2349290

bobmarley4202• 15 years ago

Is their a way to see the specific names of each user who shared the URL on Facebook. For example, if a URL has been shared on Facebook through 9300 Users is it possible to get a list of all the users name(s) or is their a easy wat to see which users shared the url.

bobmarley4202• 15 years ago

Is their a way to see the specific names of each user who shared the URL on Facebook. For example, I have a Youtube URL that has been shared on Facebook through 9300 Users. Therefore is it possible to view the names of the 9300 users? When I right click the link on Facebook it directs me straight to the Youtube link and when i click see more it only shows the most recent 20 People who have shared the link out of the total 9300.

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