Is it possible to get the number of facebook likes for a url?

Question

Ideally I would like to do this using javascript client side scripting only. If that is not possible then I\'d like to do this in such a way as to have the server do the least

Answer 1

This way returns a json object:

http://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?query=select%20like_count%20from%20link_stat%20where%20url=%27http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0638423/%27&format=json