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              May 8, 2012 23:17
            
              
                Get the share counts from various APIs
              
          
    Share Counts

I have always struggled with getting all the various share buttons from Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Pinterest, etc to align correctly and to not look like a tacky explosion of buttons.  Seeing a number of sites rolling their own share buttons with counts, for example The Next Web I decided to look into the various APIs on how to simply return the share count.
If you want to roll up all of these into a single jQuery plugin check out Sharrre
Many of these API calls and methods are undocumented, so anticipate that they will change in the future.  Also, if you are planning on rolling these out across a site I would recommend creating a simple endpoint that periodically caches results from all of the APIs so that you are not overloading the services will requests.
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## yaml_ordered_dict.py
import yaml
import yaml.constructor

try:
    # included in standard lib from Python 2.7
    from collections import OrderedDict
except ImportError:
    # try importing the backported drop-in replacement
    # it's available on PyPI
    from ordereddict import OrderedDict

## models.py
# This code is under the MIT license.
# Inspired by this StackOverflow question:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3295405/creating-django-objects-with-a-random-primary-key

import struct
from Crypto.Cipher import DES
from django.db import models


def base36encode(number):
	import yaml
	import yaml.constructor

	try:
	# included in standard lib from Python 2.7
	from collections import OrderedDict
	except ImportError:
	# try importing the backported drop-in replacement
	# it's available on PyPI
	from ordereddict import OrderedDict
	# This code is under the MIT license.
	# Inspired by this StackOverflow question:
	http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3295405/creating-django-objects-with-a-random-primary-key

	import struct
	from Crypto.Cipher import DES
	from django.db import models


	def base36encode(number):