How To Programatically Find the Social Statistics of Your Website using PHP

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January 24, 2012

How To Programatically Find the Social Statistics of Your Website using PHP

By: Trevor Boland

Whether you're in the SEO business or just have a general curiosity about your website's popularity, it's nice to see the numbers on your share/+1/tweet buttons climb. But what if you wanted to check the values of those numbers programatically? With most of the sites offering RESTApi methods, you can get the numbers rather simply with an http GET request.

Call to the below listed urls, inserting the URL of the site and you'll recieve a json object with the desired information.

Facebook: http://graph.facebook.com/?id=[YOUR URL HERE]
Twitter: http://cdn.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=[YOUR URL HERE]
Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/api/info.json?url=[YOUR URL HERE]
Stumbleupon: http://www.stumbleupon.com/services/1.01/badge.getinfo?url=[YOUR URL HERE]

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