I'm trying to get clicks statistics from bitly with adding + sign at the end of the shortened link, but it doesn't work now
anyone can help?
this is my shortened link: bit.ly/2Sb5MBg
Bit.ly have changed things not long ago. now to be able to get the data for he amount of clicks you have to log in to do so. So the usual + at the end no longer works when you are not logged in.
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I have the following issue: I recently made a url rewriting change to my website. So I changed pages with url http://www.in2life.gr/features/notes/articles/261434/article.aspx to the slightly better http://www.in2life.gr/features/notes/article/261434/h-athhna-mesa-ston-hrono-istoria-se-21-eikones.html format.
Now, in order to preserve the FB like count in the old url, I made sure that I rendered the FB like button using the iframe with the old url: https://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?locale=el_GR&href=http%3a%2f%2fwww.in2life.gr%2ffeatures%2fnotes%2farticles%2f261434%2farticle.aspx&layout=button_count&show_faces=false&width=125&action=like&font=trebuchet+ms&colorscheme=light&height=21. The problem is, the FB like count reset to zero! I am absolutely positive that this particular article had quite a few likes, but if you hit the FB graph page (https://graph.facebook.com/?ids=http://www.in2life.gr/features/notes/articles/261434/article.aspx) you may see the comment count (90) but the likes have disappeared!
Anyone know under what conditions could FB do that? Is it perhaps that in the new page I have put a canonical url in the new format, and perhaps FB parsed this and thought the old url is invalid?
Well strangely enough, 9000 likes have magically reappeared in the graph response: https://graph.facebook.com/?ids=http://www.in2life.gr/features/notes/articles/261434/article.aspx
I will never understand why FB chose to hide these likes 3-4 days ago.
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I'm looking into running a promotion where users who tweet a custom bit.ly (or any other url link service) link and have that link clicked by others x times (say, 3 times) will automatically have a piece of content (think a pdf) unlocked for them.
I'm at a bit of a loss as to how to accomplish this. I was thinking of using IFTTT.com, but they don't track how many times a bit.ly link has been clicked.
So steps would be the following:
Generate a new unique link to a given webpage
Track when that link has been clicked 3 times
Automatically send user an email when the link has been clicked 3 times with a link to unlocked content
Anyone have any ideas here? All I can think of is scraping bit.ly's stat page periodically and then seeing how often a link has been clicked, but that seems potentially quite slow and resource intensive.
The clicks API endpoint will tell you, but it's pull-based, not push, and there are API rate limits.
You could host your own URL shortener that would take care of counting the clicks, then redirecting to bit.ly/whatever, emailing, etc.
For instance: http://yourls.org/
Edit: well, bit.ly seems to have a pretty nice API. Check http://dev.bitly.com/link_metrics.html#v3_link_clicks
I'm attempting to implement facebook "likes" and having a bit of trouble. The count keeps rolling back after a page refresh.
Steps to reproduce
Navigate to http://bookmill.co.kr/books/9/quotations/79 (note: this page is in Korean)
Click Like
Notice the like count increments
Refresh your browsers
Notice that after step #4 the count is rolled back? The like is posted to my Facebook wall. I'm not clear what's going wrong.
I attempted the same thing with: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/
and it's rollback too.
Any idea what's going on? og tag is wrong? incorrect AppId?
facebooklikes: Well, developer.facebook has limitation. So you probably need to hire an expert in programming.
I am trying to implement a like button on a blog. The blog gets a decent amount of traffic and most posts get 10-30 likes, 5-10 shares and any number of comments on Facebook. I am implementing a like button for each post using the iFrame code copied straight from Facebook's Like Button page (http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/). When I do test URLS, like "test.com" a count will show up; however, when I use a URL from the site that I know has a combination of shares/likes/comments, no count shows. Additionally, when I run the link through the graph.facebook.com, it shows that there are shares (e.g., http://graph.facebook.com/http://test.com). Now, if I pressed the like button I do get a count of "1" to show up. My questions are thus:
1) Should I expect the count to show up for posts that have shares/likes/comments, but I'm just now implementing the button for it?
2) Is there anything special that needs to be done with the URL sent? URL encoding? Adding/not adding "http://"?
3) Is there a latency to the count? For instance are the counts cached and updated at different times?
Thanks for your help!
1) I don't think they will ever show up if they haven't so far.. (see answer 3)
2) No. An URL with or without http:// will be treated as the same URL. But I recommend using http://
3) If by latency you mean delay, then no. Likes/shares/comments count are updated almost instantly.
What makes up the number shown on my Like button? The number shown is
the sum of:
•The number of likes of this URL
•The number of shares of this URL
(this includes copy/pasting a link back to Facebook)
•The number of
likes and comments on stories on Facebook about this URL
•The number
of inbox messages containing this URL as an attachment.
Ok, now if user A likes something, and then user A shares the URL, will I have 2 likes displayed near the button? Or each user can only be counted once
Thanks, I try to understand this because I need to write an app around it
Facebook have a pretty good guide and API for this if you do want to make use of it.
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/
As far as the process goes, this explanation is better than anything I could come up with. But the long and short of it is, the more people who click on it independently, the more it will increment (See below). Therefore in your example user A likes it (+1), he shares it but only when his friend clicks like when it increment again.
http://www.adsforfacebook.com/the-facebook-like-button.php