Election map shares

count.rb

require 'rubygems'
require 'httparty'

def trackbacks url
  response = HTTParty.get "http://otter.topsy.com/trackbacks.json?url=#{url}"
  response['response']['trackback_total']
end

def shares url
  response = HTTParty.get "https://graph.facebook.com/?ids=#{url}"
  response[url]['shares']
end

urls = %w(
  http://elections.talkingpointsmemo.com
  http://www.cnn.com/election/2012/results/main
  http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/results/president
  http://elections.msnbc.msn.com/ns/politics/2012/all
  http://graphics.latimes.com/2012-election-results-national-map/
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-elections-2012/results/president
  http://www.politico.com/2012-election/map/
  http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/2012/results
)

urls.each do |url|
  puts [trackbacks(url), shares(url), url].join "\t"
end