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The Google Spreadsheets Script Used To Call Social Media APIs
function FBshares(url) {
var jsondata = UrlFetchApp.fetch("http://graph.facebook.com/"+url);
var object = Utilities.jsonParse(jsondata.getContentText());
return object.shares;
}
function Tweets(url) {
var jsondata = UrlFetchApp.fetch("http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url="+url);
var object = Utilities.jsonParse(jsondata.getContentText());
return object.count;
}
function Linkedin(url) {
var jsondata = UrlFetchApp.fetch("http://www.linkedin.com/cws/share-count?url="+url);
return jsondata.getContentText();
}
function SU(url) {
var jsondata = UrlFetchApp.fetch("http://www.stumbleupon.com/services/1.01/badge.getinfo?url="+url);
var object = Utilities.jsonParse(jsondata.getContentText());
return object.result.views;
}
function Gbuzz(url) {
var jsondata = UrlFetchApp.fetch("https://www.googleapis.com/buzz/v1/activities/count?alt=json&url="+url);
var object = Utilities.jsonParse(jsondata.getContentText());
return jsondata.getContentText();
}
function delicious(url) {
var jsondata = UrlFetchApp.fetch("http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/json/urlinfo/data?url="+url);
return jsondata.getContentText();
}
function reddit(url) {
var jsondata = UrlFetchApp.fetch("http://www.reddit.com/api/info.json?url="+url);
var object = Utilities.jsonParse(jsondata.getContentText());
var count = 0;
var forloop = 0;
for (var i in object.data.children) {
count = count + object.data.children[forloop].data.score;
forloop = forloop + 1;
}
return count;
}
@michaelkparker
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How do you use this in Google Sheets? E.g. Once you install the code, how would you use it in a cell?

@ramanadan36
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Could you please document little more about what this script would do.

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