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Leo Jiang
Leo Jiang

Reputation: 26085

How can I get the number of Tweets a link has using the Twitter API?

I want to see how many tweets does a link have. For Facebook, you can use FQL to get the number of Likes each page has.

Is there a page in the Twitter API documentations that describe how to do this?

Upvotes: 12

Views: 7772

Answers (2)

Tim
Tim

Reputation: 6441

This seems to work, without authentication:

http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=example.com

For example, to get the number of tweets for this random page on mashable:

http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2012%2F01%2F21%2Ftop-10-tech-this-week-13

Returns the following JSON:

{"count":1204,"url":"http://mashable.com/2012/01/21/top-10-tech-this-week-13/"}

Upvotes: 26

tjarratt
tjarratt

Reputation: 1690

Twitter hasn't released any developer APIs for analytics based on links (assuming you're only interested in links that are wrapped by the t.co wrapper). You can look at the existing documentation but it's not very good.

I don't believe there will be any API for getting the number of tweets that link to an arbitrary url.

Upvotes: 0

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