4. Share Counts

To count the number of times a URL has been shared, simply initialize a count node specifying the URL and the platform(s) to count on.

<span data-open-share-count="facebook" data-open-share-count-url="http://www.digitalsurgeons.com"></span>
<span data-open-share-count="facebook,pinterest,reddit" data-open-share-count-url="http://www.digitalsurgeons.com"></span>

or, with JavaScript:

new OpenShare.count({
  type: 'facebook',
  url: 'http://openshare.social',
  appendTo: document.body
}, node => {
  console.log(`OpenShare has been shared on Facebook ${node.innerHTML} times!`)
  node.style.color = 'blue'
})

Twitter share counts

in 2015, Twitter announced the deprecation of their count API. We have built a solution to this by querying Twitter's Search API for a URL and counting the number of results. In order to do this and stay within API rate limits we need to query the Search API on your behalf.

Connect your Twitter account with OpenShare, create a new Twitter application and pass us your access tokens. Once you have done this and specified the URLs you would like to count you will receive an API key, simply pass this to the count nodes and voila, you have Twitter share counts back! More detailed instructions can be found at openshare.social.

<span data-open-share-count="twitter"
      data-open-share-count-url='http://yourwebsite.com/'
      data-open-share-key="yourkey"></span>

or, with JavaScript

const OpenShare = require('openshare');
OpenShare.count({
    type: 'twitter',
    url: 'http://yourwebsite.com/',
    key: 'yourkey'
});