Getting google +1 Page shares via AJAX (hidden Api)

Question

Struggling to find the solution for getting the Google Plus +1 of page via jQuery - Ajax from Google\'s hidden api: https://clients6.google.com/rpc

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Answer 1

You should be using the official API for Google+ to get +1 counts for pages. The following example from the APIs explorer shows the API call and response data:

https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/#p/plus/v1/plus.people.get?userId=%252BGooglePlusDevelopers&fields=plusOneCount&_h=2&

A short demo of how to use the API client library:

1) Async include of the Google+ client / Google API client library

<script type="text/javascript">
(function() {
  var po = document.createElement('script');
  po.type = 'text/javascript'; po.async = true;
  po.src = 'https://plus.google.com/js/client:plusone.js';
  var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
  s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s);
})();
</script>

When the client loads, set the API key with a key from the Google APIs console:

gapi.client.setApiKey('YOUR_API_KEY')

Next, load the callback and place an API call once the client is loaded.

<script>
gapi.client.load('plus', 'v1', 
  function(){ 
    gapi.client.plus.people.get(
      {userId: '+GooglePlusDevelopers'}
    ).execute( function(resp){ console.log(resp); }
    );
  });
</script>

This will return JSON data that includes the +1 count, e.g.:

gapi.client.load('plus', 'v1', 
  function(){ 
    gapi.client.plus.people.get(
      {userId: '+GooglePlusDevelopers'}
    ).execute( function(resp){ console.log(resp.plusOneCount); }
    );
  });

Will return 225588, the count of +1s for the page.

Answer 2

You can use the google plus javascript library to get the share count:

Include these:

<script src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script>
<script src="https://apis.google.com/js/client:plusone.js"></script>

Then do:

var params = {
  nolog: true,
  id: "http://www.google.com/",
  source: "widget",
  userId: "@viewer",
  groupId: "@self"
};

gapi.client.setApiKey('AIzaSyCKSbrvQasunBoV16zDH9R33D88CeLr9gQ')
gapi.client.rpcRequest('pos.plusones.get', 'v1', params).execute(function(resp) {
  console.log('count:', resp.result.metadata.globalCounts.count)
});

Don't replace the apikey with your own. If you do it won't work.