Can I show a facebook share counter of my website on other website?

Question

Simple question:

I want to show a facebook share counter from site1.com on site2.com

I think I must to do some changes to data-layout="button_count" . But how to do that?

Answer 1

If you simply want to display the share count send a request to

http://graph.facebook.com/[URL]

It will respond with a JSON object that you can then parse using JavaScript or PHP.

If called like: http://graph.facebook.com/http://www.stackoverflow.com it will return:

{
    "id": "http://www.stackoverflow.com",
    "shares": 36267,
    "comments": 4
}

Example in PHP

As the question was tagged PHP as well here's an example:

$x = json_decode( file_get_contents('http://graph.facebook.com/http://www.stackoverflow.com') );
print $x->shares; // 36267