sharing-metrics

This is an node module to asynchronously retrieve social sharing metrics. Please see the example to get started.

Installation

npm install sharing-metrics --save

API Providers

These are the available providers.

• facebook: https://api.facebook.com/method/links.getStats?format=json&urls=
• pinterest: http://api.pinterest.com/v1/urls/count.json?url=

Documentation

var shares = require('sharing-metrics');

// Enable a provider.
shares.enable('pinterest');

// Disable a provider.
shares.disable('facebook');

// Sample URL to track sharing metrics.
var url = 'https://newsela.com/articles/puertorico-economy/';

// Call `getCount` which takes in the url and a callback.
shares.getCount(url, function(error, tally) {
  console.log(tally);
});

Sample output

{ total: 1, pinterest: 1 }

Contributions

Contributions are welcomed! Please fork this repo or file an issue if would like to add another provider. Documentation and examples are also welcomed.