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

Twitter: http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=http://news.ycombinator.com http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=http://new... LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/cws/share-count?url=http://news.ycombinator.com 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.

yahelc 16y ago
I packaged a few of the private ones with this weekend project: http://sharedcount.com http://sharedcount.com Unfortunately, only Facebook does URL normalization for you, so dumb things like trailing slashes have a big effect on the count.
- jsdalton 16y 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://news.ycombinator.com http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=http://new... http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=http://news.ycombinator.com/ http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=http://new... http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=http://news.ycombinator.com#foo http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=http://new...
  - yahelc 16y ago
    I stand corrected. Twitter used to suck at URL normalization, but it looks like they must have fixed it. But, Delicious and Digg both are a pain.
    - bravura 16y ago
      Is there an API for complete URL normalization, including unshortening URLs? Facebook and Twitter, do basic normalization, but do not unshorten shortened links. edit: This has already been discussed on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=577457 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=577457 edit 2: graphs.facebook.com will aggressively and unfortunately normalize any YouTube link to youtube.com. See, for example, http://graph.facebook.com/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB8nV453mTc http://graph.facebook.com/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB8... This give the number of shares for youtube.com, not this individual video. I am not sure how to get facebook share stats for a particular YouTube video.
- hammock 16y 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,
  - yahelc 16y ago
    Noted, and fixed. I was using HTML5 placeholder. I'll just put it in the value instead.
- vitovito 16y ago
  Seeing the comment counts makes me wonder what the comments were. Is there any way to see those?
- scorpion032 16y ago
  Perhaps you'd like to also display the Google Page Rank, or something to that effect, like the shares of the domain.
Aaronontheweb 16y ago
Thanks for sharing these - tremendously helpful!
subway 16y 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.ycombinator.com/ http://otter.topsy.com/urlinfo.json?url=http://news.ycombina... http://otter.topsy.com http://otter.topsy.com
abraham 16y ago
Google Buzz: https://www.googleapis.com/buzz/v1/activities/count?alt=json&url=http://news.ycombinator.com https://www.googleapis.com/buzz/v1/activities/count?alt=json... Which is also a public API.
- ImJasonH 16y ago
  And with this you can actually check multiple sites in one call: https://www.googleapis.com/buzz/v1/activities/count?alt=json&url=http://news.ycombinator.com&url=http://www.techcrunch.com&url=http://www.cnn.com https://www.googleapis.com/buzz/v1/activities/count?alt=json...
bergie 16y ago
Qaiku (public API, needs authentication): http://www.qaiku.com/api/statuses/replies/byurl.json?external_url=http://news.ycombinator.com/ http://www.qaiku.com/api/statuses/replies/byurl.json?externa...
NathanC 16y ago
thanks

yahelc 16y ago

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

jsdalton 16y 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://news.ycombinator.com http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=http://new... http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=http://news.ycombinator.com/ http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=http://new... http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=http://news.ycombinator.com#foo http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=http://new...
- yahelc 16y ago
  I stand corrected. Twitter used to suck at URL normalization, but it looks like they must have fixed it. But, Delicious and Digg both are a pain.
  - bravura 16y ago
    Is there an API for complete URL normalization, including unshortening URLs? Facebook and Twitter, do basic normalization, but do not unshorten shortened links. edit: This has already been discussed on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=577457 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=577457 edit 2: graphs.facebook.com will aggressively and unfortunately normalize any YouTube link to youtube.com. See, for example, http://graph.facebook.com/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB8nV453mTc http://graph.facebook.com/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB8... This give the number of shares for youtube.com, not this individual video. I am not sure how to get facebook share stats for a particular YouTube video.
hammock 16y 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,
- yahelc 16y ago
  Noted, and fixed. I was using HTML5 placeholder. I'll just put it in the value instead.
vitovito 16y ago
Seeing the comment counts makes me wonder what the comments were. Is there any way to see those?
scorpion032 16y ago
Perhaps you'd like to also display the Google Page Rank, or something to that effect, like the shares of the domain.

Aaronontheweb 16y ago

Thanks for sharing these - tremendously helpful!

subway 16y 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.ycombinator.com/ http://otter.topsy.com/urlinfo.json?url=http://news.ycombina... http://otter.topsy.com http://otter.topsy.com

abraham 16y ago

Google Buzz: https://www.googleapis.com/buzz/v1/activities/count?alt=json&url=http://news.ycombinator.com https://www.googleapis.com/buzz/v1/activities/count?alt=json... Which is also a public API.

ImJasonH 16y ago
And with this you can actually check multiple sites in one call: https://www.googleapis.com/buzz/v1/activities/count?alt=json&url=http://news.ycombinator.com&url=http://www.techcrunch.com&url=http://www.cnn.com https://www.googleapis.com/buzz/v1/activities/count?alt=json...

bergie 16y ago

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

NathanC 16y ago

thanks