Can I get the number of Facebook Likes a page that is not on my domain received?

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Amos picture Amos · Dec 22, 2010 · Viewed 17.6k times · Source

Is it possible to get the number of Facebook Likes made on any url, even if I don't own that url's domain?

Answer

Mark Phillip picture Mark Phillip · Oct 2, 2011

Yes, you can query specific URLs:

https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?query=select%20like_count%20from%20link_stat%20where%20url=%27https://stackoverflow.com/%27&format=json

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