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Reverse-engineering the Google +1 button using Firebug

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Re: Reverse-engineering the Google +1 button using Firebug

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Considering this rpc key parameter, I really wonder how long this is going to work and I'd say this is a bug on googles side that it even worked. I checked their embed page ( http://www.google.com/webmasters/+1/button/ ) and I don't see that it requires any API key what so ever, so I assume this rpc_key thing is something private to the API and fetched as the button-JS communicates with the server. These keys are pro…

They recently added +1 metrics in Webmaster Tools. Not ideal, but it's better than nothing...
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