I use that on my HN mashup... http://hnfluence.com/ Also my nyt mashup... http://influentialtimes.com/
What API/URL do you use to get the bit.ly counts?
See how many times a URL has been shared on Facebook
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#42Does anyone know at what point your IP would get throttled? If so, any usage guidelines if you plan on analyzing a large url set?
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#43Does this only count public posts that "everyone" can see?
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#44I use that on my HN mashup... http://hnfluence.com/ Also my nyt mashup... http://influentialtimes.com/
What API/URL do you use to get the bit.ly counts?
Probably the bit.ly API: http://code.google.com/p/bitly-api/wiki/ApiDocumentation
Re: See how many times a URL has been shared on Facebook
#45Statistically 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 thi…
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
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
What API/URL do you use to get the bit.ly counts?
Probably the bit.ly API: http://code.google.com/p/bitly-api/wiki/ApiDocumentation
That's the one. All the api's I'm using here return json. The only tricky part when dealing with these api's is making sure the json can be parsed, trapping errors, making sure variables exist before calling them... that kind of thing.
Re: See how many times a URL has been shared on Facebook
#47Twitter: 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.
Qaiku (public API, needs authentication): http://www.qaiku.com/api/statuses/replies/byurl.json?externa...
Re: See how many times a URL has been shared on Facebook
#48Here is a PHP lib for getting these counts across quite a few services: https://github.com/nemein/com_meego_planet/blob/master/calcu...
Re: See how many times a URL has been shared on Facebook
#49Twitter: 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.
Google Buzz: https://www.googleapis.com/buzz/v1/activities/count?alt=json... Which is also a public API.
And with this you can actually check multiple sites in one call:
https://www.googleapis.com/buzz/v1/activities/count?alt=json...
Re: See how many times a URL has been shared on Facebook
#50Here is a PHP lib for getting these counts across quite a few services: https://github.com/nemein/com_meego_planet/blob/master/calcu...
Quick usage example: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/calculate_the_impact_of_your_posts...