Get a raw Google+ share count in Rails

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Google+ Share Count

While there's no officially documented method in the Google+ API way to get a raw share count, there are some tricks you can do to acheive this.

For this example, we're working in a Rails app with Nokogiri. We'll use Nokogiri to open the Google+ fastbutton tool and return the share count.

require 'open-uri'
require 'nokogiri'

@url = "http://yoursite.com"

googleplus_data = Nokogiri::HTML(open("https://plusone.google.com/_/+1/fastbutton?url=#{@url}"))
self.gplus_count = googleplus_data.css('div#aggregateCount')[0].text.to_i

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