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Get count of +1 of a webpage in c#


I want a method to get a webpage url and return count of it's +1. I searched google and just find this and the method is:

int GetPlusOnes(string url) 
{

     string googleApiUrl = "https://clients6.google.com/rpc"; //?key=AIzaSyCKSbrvQasunBoV16zDH9R33D88CeLr9gQ";

     string postData = @"[{""method"":""pos.plusones.get"",""id"":""p"",""params"":{""nolog"":true,""id"":""" + url + @""",""source"":""widget"",""userId"":""@viewer"",""groupId"":""@self""},""jsonrpc"":""2.0"",""key"":""p"",""apiVersion"":""v1""}]";

     System.Net.HttpWebRequest request = (System.Net.HttpWebRequest)System.Net.WebRequest.Create(googleApiUrl);
     request.Method = "POST";
     request.ContentType = "application/json-rpc";
     request.ContentLength = postData.Length;

     System.IO.Stream writeStream = request.GetRequestStream();
     UTF8Encoding encoding = new UTF8Encoding();
     byte[] bytes = encoding.GetBytes(postData);
     writeStream.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
     writeStream.Close();

     System.Net.HttpWebResponse response = (System.Net.HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
     System.IO.Stream responseStream = response.GetResponseStream();
     System.IO.StreamReader readStream = new System.IO.StreamReader(responseStream, Encoding.UTF8);
     string jsonString = readStream.ReadToEnd();

     readStream.Close();
     responseStream.Close();
     response.Close();

    var json = new System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer().Deserialize(jsonString);
    int count = Int32.Parse(json[0]["result"]["metadata"]["globalCounts"]["count"].ToString().Replace(".0", ""));

    return count;
}

but there is an error in

var json = new System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer().Deserialize(jsonString);

because the Deserialize method gets two arguments and I don't know the second argument. does anybody know what is the second argument or know another methods that works fine?

update I also tried

    public static Regex REGEX_GETURLCOUNT =
    new Regex(@"<div[^>]+id=""aggregateCount""[^>]+>(\d*)</div>");

    public int GetPlusOnes(string url)
    {
        string fetchUrl =
            "https://plusone.google.com/u/0/_/+1/fastbutton?url=" +
            HttpUtility.UrlEncode(url) + "&count=true";
        WebClient wc=new WebClient();
        string response = wc.DownloadString(fetchUrl);

        Match match = REGEX_GETURLCOUNT.Match(response);
        if (match.Success)
        {
            return int.Parse(match.Groups[1].Value);
        }
        return 0;
    }

but match.Success is always false!


Solution

  • Had to do something like this recently, i used:

     public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page
        {
            protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
            {
                int test = GetPlusOnes("http://www.allfancydress.com/"); //Returns 11 plus ones
                Response.Write("Plus ones: " + test.ToString());
            }
    
            public static Regex REGEX_GETURLCOUNT =
             new Regex(@"<div[^>]+id=""aggregateCount""[^>]+>(\d*)</div>");
    
            public static int GetPlusOnes(string url)
            {
                string fetchUrl =
                    "https://plusone.google.com/u/0/_/+1/fastbutton?url=" +
                    HttpUtility.UrlEncode(url) + "&count=true";
                HttpWebRequest request =
                    (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(fetchUrl);
                string response = new StreamReader(request.GetResponse()
                    .GetResponseStream()).ReadToEnd();
                Match match = REGEX_GETURLCOUNT.Match(response);
                if (match.Success)
                {
                    return int.Parse(match.Groups[1].Value);
                }
                return 0;
            }
    
        }
    

    Hope this helps

    *edited out my custom proxy class, you can just cut and paste this and it will work for you.