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

It's pretty simple, several other anwsers on SO already showed good examples. Basically use the Graph API: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/api to query info on your URL, for example: https://graph.facebook.com/?ids=http://www.stackloverflow.com . The API retuns a JSON object which should be easy to use with Javascript.