Getting google +1 Page shares via AJAX (hidden Api)

Question

Struggling to find the solution for getting the Google Plus +1 of page via jQuery - Ajax from Google\'s hidden api: https://clients6.google.com/rpc

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Answer 1

You should be using the official API for Google+ to get +1 counts for pages. The following example from the APIs explorer shows the API call and response data:

https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/#p/plus/v1/plus.people.get?userId=%252BGooglePlusDevelopers&fields=plusOneCount&_h=2&

A short demo of how to use the API client library:

1) Async include of the Google+ client / Google API client library

When the client loads, set the API key with a key from the Google APIs console:

gapi.client.setApiKey('YOUR_API_KEY')

Next, load the callback and place an API call once the client is loaded.

This will return JSON data that includes the +1 count, e.g.:

gapi.client.load('plus', 'v1', 
  function(){ 
    gapi.client.plus.people.get(
      {userId: '+GooglePlusDevelopers'}
    ).execute( function(resp){ console.log(resp.plusOneCount); }
    );
  });

Will return 225588, the count of +1s for the page.