socialcounts

Social counts for a given URL from FB, LinkedIn Twitter, Google+, StumbleUpon and Pinterest. It can be used as an API for your node application. Data is retrieved from the official buttons provided by the networks.

Requirements

Need to install mongodb if you want to have a cache layer for your data.

Mongodb

Endpoints

https://api.facebook.com/method/links.getStats?urls=%%URL%%&format=json
http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=%%URL%%&callback=twttr.receiveCount
http://www.linkedin.com/cws/share-count?url=%%URL%%
http://www.stumbleupon.com/services/1.01/badge.getinfo?url=%%URL%%
http://widgets.pinterest.com/v1/urls/count.json?source=6&url=%%URL%%
https://clients6.google.com/rpc?key=google_key (POST)

Installation

$ npm install socialcountstracker

Usage

API

var socialcounts = require('socialcountstracker');

// Options that you can pass
// Following are the defaults

var options = {
  mongoActive: true,
  host: 'mongodb://localhost/socialcounts',
  limitResults: 100,
  // How long it uses the prev result, without inserting a new one
  cache_refresh: 24 * 3600,
  collectionName: 'social',
  facebook: true,
  twitter: true,
  pinterest: true,
  linkedin: true,
  googlePlus: true,
  stumbleUpon: true,
  google_token: ''  // TODO: Pass your google API Token
};

socialcounts.start({twitter: false, googlePlus: false}, function (instance) {
  instance.getSocialCounts('www.ign.com', function (err, results) {
    console.log(results);
  });

  instance.getSocialCounts('www.as.com', function (err, results) {
    console.log(results);
  });

  instance.getSocialCounts('www.nytimes.com', function (err, results) {
    console.log(results);
  });
});

Testing

$ npm run test

Or if you are changing lots of things:

$ npm run autotest