Social shares is intended to easily check social sharings of an url.
You can track how many times the url was shared in various social networks, such as facebook, twitter, etc. It can be useful for some kind landings with social mechanics or for tracking network activity of your content pages.
International:
- google plus
twitterLooking for another way, because API have been closed officially- stumbleupon
- buffer
Russian:
Chinese:
Japanese:
:000 > require 'social_shares'
=> true
:000 > url = 'http://www.apple.com/'
=> "http://www.apple.com/"
:000 > SocialShares.facebook url
=> 394927
:000 > SocialShares.google url
=> 28289
:000 > SocialShares.twitter url
=> 1164675In case of exception:
:000 > SocialShares.twitter url
=> nil
:000 > SocialShares.twitter! url
=> RestClient::RequestTimeout: Request TimeoutList of all supported networks:
:000 > SocialShares.supported_networks
=> [:vkontakte, :facebook, :google, :twitter, :mail_ru, :odnoklassniki, :reddit, :linkedin, :pinterest, :stumbleupon, :buffer]Fetch all shares by one method (#all, #all!):
# in case of exception it will return nil
:000 > SocialShares.all url
=> {:vkontakte=>nil, :facebook=>399027, :google=>28346, :twitter=>1836, :mail_ru=>37, :odnoklassniki=>1, :reddit=>2361, :linkedin=>33, :pinterest=>21011, :stumbleupon=>43035, :weibo=>12760, :buffer=>1662}
# and this will raise it
:000 > SocialShares.all! url
=> RestClient::RequestTimeout: Request TimeoutFetch shares by excluding networks(#omit, #omit!):
:000 > SocialShares.omit url, %w(facebook)
=> { :google=>28289, :linkedin=>nil, ... }
# same here
:000 > SocialShares.omit! url, %w(facebook)
=> RestClient::RequestTimeout: Request TimeoutFetch shares of selected networks(#selected, #selected!):
:000 > SocialShares.selected url, %w(facebook google linkedin)
=> {:facebook=>394927, :google=>28289, :linkedin=>nil}
# same here
:000 > SocialShares.selected! url, %w(facebook google linkedin)
=> RestClient::RequestTimeout: Request TimeoutTotal sum of sharings in selected networks:
:000 > SocialShares.total url, %w(facebook google)
=> 423216
# Second arg is optional, by default it takes all networks
:000 > SocialShares.total url
=> 1631102Does any network have at least one link?
:000 > SocialShares.has_any? url, %w(facebook google)
=> true
# Second arg is optional, by default it takes all networks
:000 > SocialShares.has_any? url
=> trueNote that #has_any? is faster than (#total > 0), because it stops on first network that has at least 1 sharing
You can specify timeout and open_timeout for each social network
SocialShares.config = {
twitter: {timeout: 4, open_timeout: 7},
facebook: {timeout: 10, open_timeout: 15}
}:open_timeoutis the timeout for opening the connection. This is useful if you are calling servers with slow or shaky response times. Default value is 3 seconds.:timeoutis the timeout for reading the answer. This is useful to make sure you will not get stuck half way in the reading process, or get stuck reading a 5 MB file when you're expecting 5 KB of JSON. Default value is 3 seconds.
If you use Rails, you can create file config/initializers/social_shares.rb and fill it with this config.
Send request through shell to test numbers. Please do NOT use this url in your projects.
curl -X POST -d '{"url": "http://www.apple.com", "networks": ["facebook", "google", "reddit"]}' https://social-shares-api-cedar-14.herokuapp.com/You will see:
{"facebook":312412,"google":46088,"reddit":114}Include the gem in your Gemfile:
gem 'social_shares'
- Create provider class in lib/social_shares/foo.rb with method #shares!, that return Integer value. #checked_url is accessed attribute.
module SocialShares
class Foo < Base
def shares!
response = RestClient.get(url)
JSON.parse(response)["shares"] || 0
end
private
def url
"http://foo.com/?url=#{checked_url}"
end
end
end- Add it to lib/social_shares.rb
require 'social_shares/foo'
SUPPORTED_NETWORKS = [:foo, :vkontakte, :facebook]
- Update README: add link to list, possible answer in #all method, etc.