Track, Retrieve And Display Social Media Shares, Likes, Retweets, And More.
- Find what’s trending by social shares.
- Share count updated in real-time.
- Supports Twitter, Facebook, Reddit & Pinterest.
- Accurate, reliable and easy to integrate
Check social shares for any URL.
Social Animal’s Share count API is a simple, easy-to-use REST API that returns JSON search results for URLs.
What is social share count/share counts?
Keeping track of how a URL or an article is performing on social media can have many benefits including helping you understand website performance and see what’s working and what isn’t. These social metrics are called share counts.
How are social share counts calculated?
This depends on the social platform. Some count the unique number of times a link or an article has been shared. Others count engagement actions like likes and comments. The share count displayed on Social Animal can be interpreted as the most accurate number of engagements any URL / article has had on a social platform.
Demonstration of the API results:
{
"data": [
{
"twitter_share_count": 104098,
"pinterest_share_count": 26,
"total_share_count": 1087422,
"facebook_share_count": 982818,
"url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-55881753",
"reddit_share_count": 480
},
{
"twitter_share_count": 1489464,
"pinterest_share_count": 37,
"total_share_count": 2126953,
"facebook_share_count": 570742,
"url": "https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-covid-19-vaccine",
"reddit_share_count": 67240
}
]
}
Integrate Social Animal’s powerful, accurate and reliable Share Count API into your website, analytics platform or an app.
- Get holistic engagement data on any website’s content. With Shared Counts API, see what content is connecting, what content isn’t, and where you should focus to maximize ROI.
- The API has hundreds of millions of URLs in its ever-growing database. Cannot find your URL? Submit it and the tool will fetch share counts for you.
Use Cases
