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

yahelc · on March 20, 2011

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.

jsdalton · on March 20, 2011

> 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...

yahelc · on March 20, 2011

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 · on March 21, 2011

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.

vitovito · on March 21, 2011

Seeing the comment counts makes me wonder what the comments were. Is there any way to see those?

hammock · on March 20, 2011

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 · on March 21, 2011

Noted, and fixed. I was using HTML5 placeholder. I'll just put it in the value instead.

scorpion032 · on March 21, 2011

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

abraham · on March 21, 2011

Google Buzz: https://www.googleapis.com/buzz/v1/activities/count?alt=json...

Which is also a public API.

ImJasonH · on March 21, 2011

And with this you can actually check multiple sites in one call:

https://www.googleapis.com/buzz/v1/activities/count?alt=json...

subway · on March 21, 2011

The Twitter information is also available via Topsy's public Otter API. See trackback_total:

http://otter.topsy.com/urlinfo.json?url=http://news.ycombina...

http://otter.topsy.com

Aaronontheweb · on March 20, 2011

Thanks for sharing these - tremendously helpful!

bergie · on March 21, 2011

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

NathanC · on March 29, 2011

thanks