Get the number of facebook *shares* of a specific URL

Question

I\'ve found some discrepancies in the graph api and was wondering if anybody has been able to work around them.

https://graph.facebook.com/?id=http://www.imdb.com/ti

Answer 1

This API is no longer available. The answer below is no longer valid.

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I could get stats of a page (say http://techcrunch.com) with just a GET request to API. Just place this GET request http://api.facebook.com/restserver.php?method=links.getStats&urls=[YOUR_URL] and get the stats.

like http://api.facebook.com/restserver.php?method=links.getStats&urls=http://techcrunch.com/ returns

    
        http://techcrunch.com/
        http://www.techcrunch.com/
        6244
        1513
        1391
        9148
        4007
        433841427570
        4
    

Hope this helps.

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Also,

If you want that response as a JSON, just append &format=json to request URL – Dexter
(from the comment. Thanks Dexter!)