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

You need to use Facebooks' FQL with table link_stat. Use something similar to this

SELECT
url, normalized_url,
share_count, like_count, comment_count, total_count,
commentsbox_count, comments_fbid, click_count
FROM link_stat
WHERE url="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117500/"

This is the result for that query (in XML format, you can of course get it in JSON)

  
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117500/
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117500/
    6233
    9500
    2179
    17912
    6
    380728101301
    164
  

The total_count (17912) is the number you are looking for.