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Is there a way to retrieve the amount of times a certain URL was "dented" (shared on identi.ca, status.net and/or the likes?).

For twitter there are several services that give this information.

I don't need the fancy extra information that Tweetmeme or Topsy deliver, only the amount.

I am aware that this is problematic, seen from the "distributed" nature of status.net: it will only give a count from once single silo, e.g. identi.ca. However, for me, for now, that would be enough.

Is there such an endpoint that gives me such JSON?

berkes
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  • Does my comment answer your question? Thanks! – julien_c Feb 17 '11 at 11:55
  • Unfortunately, It does :(. I did not accept it yet, because I was hoping someone might offer an alternative still. – berkes Feb 18 '11 at 10:17
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    There is also a proposed Google Summer of Code project for StatusNet that would do that (among other things), a Social Analytics Plugin: http://status.net/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2011#Social_Analytics_Plugin. I'll update my answer to add that. – julien_c Mar 28 '11 at 15:58

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I don't think so. There's a file table in StatusNet databases that holds references to dented URLs (so it wouldn't be hard to count them if you had access to database or could write a plugin -- i.e., you wouldn't have to parse all notices, just lookup the file table), but it's not exposed through the API.

The list of API possible calls for StatusNet is here: http://status.net/wiki/TwitterCompatibleAPI

In addition, there's a proposed Google Summer of Code project on this subject: Social Analytics plugin

julien_c
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