Facebook link stats

README.md

Setup

Put the facebooklinkstats.rb to jobs/facebooklinkstats.rb.

Add the code from facebooklinkstats.erb to the desired dashboard.

Preview

facebooklinkstats.erb

    <li data-row="1" data-col="1" data-sizex="1" data-sizey="1">
      <div data-id="fblinkstat" data-view="List" data-unordered="true" data-title="FB link stats" data-moreinfo="for amnesty.ca links"></div>
    <i class="icon-facebook icon-background"></i>
    </li>

facebooklinkstats.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'net/http'
require 'json'

# The url you are tracking
sharedlink = URI::encode('amnesty.ca')

SCHEDULER.every '10m' do
  fbstat = []

  http = Net::HTTP.new('graph.facebook.com')
  response = http.request(Net::HTTP::Get.new("/fql?q=SELECT%20share_count,%20like_count,%20comment_count,%20total_count%20FROM%20link_stat%20WHERE%20url=%22#{sharedlink}%22"))
  fbcounts = JSON.parse(response.body)['data']

  fbcounts[0].each do |stat|
    fbstat << {:label=>stat[0], :value=>stat[1]}
  end

   send_event('fblinkstat', { items: fbstat })

end

Does this now need an access token to get data?