My requirement is to get the list of top N videos being shared on facebook, twitter. When i say top, i mean it would be based on likes, shares, tweets, retweets etc.
The question from where I am coming is the way how youtube provides a list of top N videos through its api. I need to get similar information for facebook and twitter.
Can somebody suggest ? Thanks.
I have never asked myself how to do this, but would proceed in the following way, based on the Video URL: Twitter: search for all tweets with that URL using the search API and count the number of tweets(?). A previe of the results can be found in the search tool on Twitter (this is a sample query with a random video https://twitter.com/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DTD7oMzfA9fY&src=typd) Facebook: make a query to the graph API, and search for shares/likes of the video url. You have many discussions here on SO that address how to to that. Examples are here How do you get the total likes for a URL (Likes and Shares)? and here How to get share counts using graph API (Facebook). For Twitter, you may refer to the Developers site?
Shortcomings: this solution, albeit simple, is not exhaustive. If you are planning to count shares and the "social buzz" of Youtube videos, bear in mind that Youtube has different urls for one video, and that the query on both Twitter and Facebook is based on the actual URL shared. Twitter users tend to post shortened urls, so it may be difficult to count the tweets about a video with the url only.
