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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.

Twitter

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worker_processes 4;                                                         
pid /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.pid;                                                         
                                                                            
events {                                                                    
    worker_connections 768;                                                   
    # multi_accept on;                                                        
}                                                                           
                                                                            
http {                                                                      
                                                                            

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# REQUIREMENTS : Enable PHP Support
location ~ \.php$ {
    try_files $uri =404;
    fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
    fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
    fastcgi_index index.php;
    fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    include fastcgi_params;
}

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location ~ \.php$ {
    try_files $uri =404;
    fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
    fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
    fastcgi_index index.php;
    include fastcgi_params;
}

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# Global configuration file.
# ESSENTIAL : Configure Nginx Listening Port
listen 80;
# ESSENTIAL : Default file to serve. If the first file isn't found, 
index index.php index.html index.htm;
# ESSENTIAL : no favicon logs
location = /favicon.ico {
    log_not_found off;
    access_log off;
}

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server{
	server_name default.local;
	root /Web/default;

	access_log /Web/logs/default.access.log;
	error_log /Web/logs/default.error.log;

	include /usr/local/etc/nginx/global/common.conf;
	include /usr/local/etc/nginx/global/php.conf;

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CREATE DATABASE `mydb` CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
GRANT ALL ON `mydb`.* TO `username`@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

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CREATE DATABASE jiradb CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_bin;

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# GNU Screen - main configuration file 
# All other .screenrc files will source this file to inherit settings.
# Author: Christian Wills - cwills.sys@gmail.com

# Allow bold colors - necessary for some reason
attrcolor b ".I"

# Tell screen how to set colors. AB = background, AF=foreground
termcapinfo xterm 'Co#256:AB=\E[48;5;%dm:AF=\E[38;5;%dm'

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