linkorb/socialshare

Retrieve sharing stats for any url for various social networks

dev-master 2015-01-23 11:37 UTC

Requires

• php: >=5.3.0
• doctrine/cache: ~1.4
• guzzle/guzzle: 3.8.*@dev
• symfony/console: ~2.4

MIT

• Joost Faassen

• twitter
• facebook
• linkedin
• pinterest
• share
• sharing
• socialmedia

README

Retrieve sharing stats for any url for various social networks.

Simple example

$url = new LinkORB\Component\SocialShare\Url('http://google.com');
print_r($url->getShareCounts());

Output:

Array
(
    [pinterest] => Array
        (
            [count] => 10610
            [countlabel] => 10.6K
        )

    [twitter] => Array
        (
            [count] => 7485
            [countlabel] => 7.5K
        )

    [facebook] => Array
        (
            [id] => http://google.com
            [comments] => 133545
            [shares] => 2
            [likes] =>
            [talking_about_count] =>
            [were_here_count] =>
            [count] => 133547
            [countlabel] => 133.5K
        )

    [linkedin] => Array
        (
            [count] => 63420
            [countlabel] => 63.4K
        )

    [googleplus] => Array
        (
            [count] => 5142375
            [countlabel] => 5142.4K
        )
)

Features

• PSR-0 compatible, works with composer and is registered on packagist.org
• Optional caching support through any Doctrine CacheProvider (FileSystem, Memcached, etc..)
• Support for twitter.com
• Support for facebook.com
• Support for linkedin.com
• Support for pinterest.com
• Support for plus.google.com

Installing

Check out composer for details about installing and running composer.

Then, add linkorb/socialshare to your project's composer.json:

{
    "require": {
        "linkorb/socialshare": "dev-master"
    }
}

Try the commandline utility:

There is a simple example commandline utility to test the functionality:

bin/console socialshare:urlsharecount http://google.com

This will retrieve all supported sharing stats, and output the resulting array to the console.

Contributing

Ready to build and improve on this repo? Excellent! Go ahead and fork/clone this repo and we're looking forward to your pull requests!

If you are unable to implement changes you like yourself, don't hesitate to open a new issue report so that we or others may take care of it.

Todo

• Add support for more networks (Tumblr, QQ, etc...)

License

Please check LICENSE.md for full license information

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