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Google Apps Script to get social bookmark/share counts for a list of urls (in this case on a sheet called Main with urls in column 5). Used in http://mashe.hawksey.info/2011/08/and-the-most-engaging-jisc-project-is/
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gistfile1.js
var doc = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var sheet = doc.getSheetByName("Main");
var TITLE_ROW = 1;
var URL_COL = 5;
var FBL_COL = 6;
var FBS_COL = 7;
var FBC_COL = 8;
var TW_COL = 9;
var TOP_COL = 10;
var BZ_COL = 11;
var GP_COL = 12;
var LI_COL = 13;
var DI_COL = 14;
var DE_COL = 15;
var SU_COL = 16;
function getStats() {
for (var rowIdx=0; rowIdx < sheet.getLastRow(); rowIdx++){
var rowNum = rowIdx+TITLE_ROW+1;
var itemurl = sheet.getRange(rowNum,URL_COL).getValues();
Utilities.sleep(500);
var counts = getSharedCount(itemurl);
sheet.getRange(rowNum, FBL_COL).setValue(c_val(counts["Facebook"]["like_count"]));
sheet.getRange(rowNum, FBS_COL).setValue(c_val(counts["Facebook"]["share_count"]));
sheet.getRange(rowNum, FBC_COL).setValue(c_val(counts["Facebook"]["comment_count"]));
sheet.getRange(rowNum, TW_COL).setValue(c_val(counts["Twitter"]));
sheet.getRange(rowNum, BZ_COL).setValue(c_val(counts["Buzz"]));
sheet.getRange(rowNum, GP_COL).setValue(c_val(counts["GooglePlusOne"]));
sheet.getRange(rowNum, LI_COL).setValue(c_val(counts["LinkedIn"]));
sheet.getRange(rowNum, DI_COL).setValue(c_val(counts["Diggs"]));
sheet.getRange(rowNum, DE_COL).setValue(c_val(counts["Delicious"]));
sheet.getRange(rowNum, SU_COL).setValue(c_val(counts["StumbleUpon"]));
sheet.getRange(rowNum, TOP_COL).setValue(c_val(getTopsyCount(itemurl)));
/*
sheet.getRange(rowNum, FBL_COL).setValue(c_val(getFacebookLike(itemurl)));
sheet.getRange(rowNum, FBS_COL).setValue(c_val(getFacebookShare(itemurl)));
sheet.getRange(rowNum, FBC_COL).setValue(c_val(getFacebookComment(itemurl)));
sheet.getRange(rowNum, TW_COL).setValue(c_val(getTweetCount(itemurl)));
sheet.getRange(rowNum, BZ_COL).setValue(c_val(getBuzzCount(itemurl)));
sheet.getRange(rowNum, GP_COL).setValue(c_val(getPlusones(itemurl)));
sheet.getRange(rowNum, LI_COL).setValue(c_val(getLinkedInCount(itemurl)));
sheet.getRange(rowNum, DI_COL).setValue(c_val(getDiggCount(itemurl)));
sheet.getRange(rowNum, DE_COL).setValue(c_val(getDeliciousCount(itemurl)));
sheet.getRange(rowNum, SU_COL).setValue(c_val(getStumbleCount(itemurl)));
sheet.getRange(rowNum, TOP_COL).setValue(c_val(getTopsyCount(itemurl)));
*/
}
}
function getSharedCount(url){
try {
var options =
{
"method" : "get",
"contentType" : "application/json"
};
var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch("http://api.sharedcount.com/?url="+encodeURI(url), options);
var results = Utilities.jsonParse(response.getContentText());
return results;
} catch(e){
Logger.log(e);
}
}
function c_val(aValue){
if (aValue == undefined){
return "-";
} else {
return aValue;
}
}
function getFacebookLike(url){
try {
var options =
{
"method" : "get",
"contentType" : "application/json"
};
var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch("https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?query=select%20like_count%20%20from%20link_stat%20where%20url=%22"+encodeURIComponent(url)+"%22&format=json", options);
var results = Utilities.jsonParse(response.getContentText());
var result = results[0];
return result.like_count;
} catch(e){
Logger.log(e);
}
var err = "-";
return err;
}
function getFacebookShare(url){
try {
var options =
{
"method" : "get",
"contentType" : "application/json"
};
var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch("https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?query=select%20share_count%20%20from%20link_stat%20where%20url=%22"+encodeURIComponent(url)+"%22&format=json", options);
var results = Utilities.jsonParse(response.getContentText());
var result = results[0];
return result.share_count;
} catch(e){
}
var err = "-";
return err;
}
function getFacebookComment(url){
try {
var options =
{
"method" : "get",
"contentType" : "application/json"
};
var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch("https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?query=select%20comment_count%20%20from%20link_stat%20where%20url=%22"+encodeURIComponent(url)+"%22&format=json", options);
var results = Utilities.jsonParse(response.getContentText());
var result = results[0];
return result.comment_count;
} catch(e){
}
var err = "-";
return err;
}
function getTweetCount(url){
try {
var options =
{
"method" : "get",
"contentType" : "application/json"
};
var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch("http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url="+encodeURI(url), options);
var results = Utilities.jsonParse(response.getContentText());
return results.count;
} catch(e){
}
var err = "-";
return err;
}
function getTopsyCount(url){
try {
var options =
{
"method" : "get",
"contentType" : "application/json"
};
var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch("http://otter.topsy.com/stats.json?url="+encodeURI(url), options);
var results = Utilities.jsonParse(response.getContentText());
return results.response.all;
} catch(e){
Logger.log(e);
}
var err = "-";
return err;
}
function getBuzzCount(url){
try {
var options =
{
"method" : "get",
"contentType" : "application/json"
};
var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch("http://www.google.com/buzz/api/buzzThis/buzzCounter?url="+encodeURI(url)+"&callback=buzzData", options);
var result = eval(response.getContentText());
return result;
} catch(e){
}
var err = "-";
return err;
}
function buzzData(arr){
for (i in arr){
var result = arr[i];
}
return(result);
}
function getLinkedInCount(url){
// ref http://justthatidontforget.blogspot.com/2011/04/script-to-get-linkedin-share-count-for.html
try{
var options =
{
"method" : "get",
"contentType" : "application/json"
};
var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch("http://www.linkedin.com/cws/share-count?url="+encodeURI(url)+"&callback=?", options);
var IN={};
IN.Tags={};
IN.Tags.Share={};
IN.Tags.Share.handleCount=function(e){result = e.count};
eval(response.getContentText());
return result;
} catch(e){
}
var err = "-";
return err;
}
function getDiggCount(url){
try {
var options =
{
"method" : "get",
"contentType" : "application/json"
};
var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch("http://widgets.digg.com/buttons/count?url="+encodeURI(url)+"&callback=?", options);
var __DBW={};
__DBW.collectDiggs=function(e){result = e.diggs};
eval(response.getContentText());
return result;
} catch(e){
}
var err = "-";
return err;
}
function getDeliciousCount(url){
// md5 hash calculated using techworker1 code http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/apps-script/thread?tid=0a18d7ca49d1cdf4&hl=en
try {
var theHash = Utilities.computeDigest(Utilities.DigestAlgorithm.MD5, url);
var txt_hash = '';
for (j = 0; j < theHash.length; j++) {
var hashVal = theHash[j];
if (hashVal < 0)
hashVal += 256;
if (hashVal.toString(16).length == 1)
txt_hash += "0";
txt_hash += hashVal.toString(16);
}
var options =
{
"method" : "get",
"contentType" : "application/json"
};
var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch("http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/json/urlinfo/blogbadge?hash="+txt_hash, options);
var result = Utilities.jsonParse(response.getContentText());
return result[0].total_posts;
} catch(e){
}
var err = "-";
return err;
}
function getStumbleCount(url){
try {
var options =
{
"method" : "get",
"contentType" : "application/json"
};
var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch("http://www.stumbleupon.com/services/1.01/badge.getinfo?url="+encodeURI(url), options);
var results = Utilities.jsonParse(response.getContentText());
return results.result.views;
} catch(e){
}
var err = "-";
return err;
}
function getPlusones(url){
// from http://www.tomanthony.co.uk/blog/google_plus_one_button_seo_count_api/
try{
var options =
{
"method" : "post",
"contentType" : "application/json",
"payload" : '{"method":"pos.plusones.get","id":"p","params":{"nolog":true,"id":"'+url+'","source":"widget","userId":"@viewer","groupId":"@self"},"jsonrpc":"2.0","key":"p","apiVersion":"v1"}'
};
var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch("https://clients6.google.com/rpc?key=AIzaSyCKSbrvQasunBoV16zDH9R33D88CeLr9gQ", options);
var results = JSON.parse(response.getContentText());
return results.result.metadata.globalCounts.count;
} catch(e){
}
var err = "-";
return err;
}
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