WordPress - count shares via Sharedcount.com

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/**
 * http://www.sharedcount.com/documentation.php
 */
function social_shares() {
	$url = get_permalink( $post_id ); 
	$json = file_get_contents("http://api.sharedcount.com/?url=" . rawurlencode($url));
    $counts = json_decode($json, true);
    $totalcounts= array(
    	"twitter" => $counts["Twitter"],
    	"facebook" => $counts["Facebook"]["total_count"],
    	"google" => $counts["GooglePlusOne"]
    );
    return $totalcounts;
}

/**
 * instead of file_get_contents you can use wp_remote_retrieve_body
 */
$json = wp_remote_retrieve_body( wp_remote_get(‘http://api.sharedcount.com/?url=” . rawurlencode($url)));

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