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Re: See how many times a URL has been shared on Facebook

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Post by bravura »

yahelc wrote: post #22
jsdalton wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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.

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

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=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.

Re: See how many times a URL has been shared on Facebook

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Post by scorpion032 »

yahelc wrote: post #18
jsdalton wrote: post #13

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.

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.

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

Re: See how many times a URL has been shared on Facebook

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Post by bobmarley420 »

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.

Re: See how many times a URL has been shared on Facebook

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Post by bobmarley420 »

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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