getting social media counts for urls

sharecounts.py

import simplejson as json
from urllib import urlencode
import requests
import re


def facebook_likes_for_url(url):
    r = requests.get('http://graph.facebook.com/%s' % url)
    obj = json.loads(r.content)
    return obj['likes']


def jsonp_api(api_url, target_url):
    d = dict(callback='fakeCallback', url=target_url)
    r = requests.get(api_url + ('?%s' % urlencode(d)))
    m = re.match('fakeCallback\((.+)\)$', r.content)
    obj = json.loads(m.group(1))
    return obj['count']


def pinterest_pins_for_url(url):
    return jsonp_api('http://api.pinterest.com/v1/urls/count.json', url)


def tweets_for_url(url):
    return jsonp_api('http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json', url)