Decode Facebook API JSON with PHP

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$url = 'https://api.facebook.com/method/links.getStats?urls=http://google.com&format=json';
$get = json_decode($url, true);
echo 'Shares:' . $get['share_count'];

Why does this not return anything?

json_decode doesn't work with URLs. You have to download response of this request and pass it to json_decode — hindmost
– hindmost, Commented Apr 17, 2014 at 19:03

Dejan Marjanović · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-17 19:12:06Z

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json_decode doesn't work with URLs, it expects string as parameter. You have to fetch response of this request and pass it to json_decode. Something like this:

$url = 'https://api.facebook.com/method/links.getStats?urls=http://google.com&format=json';
$get = json_decode(file_get_contents($url), true);
echo 'Shares:' . $get['share_count'];

edited Apr 17, 2014 at 19:12

Dejan Marjanović

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answered Apr 17, 2014 at 19:06

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Jay Maharjan · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-27 04:38:27Z

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You can get the total count by using the following code.

$url = $this->get_json_values( 'https://api.facebook.com/method/links.getStats?urls=http://google.com&format=json' );
$json = json_decode( $url, true );
$facebook_count = isset( $json[0]['share_count'] ) ? intval( $json[0]['share_count'] ) : 0;

$facebook_count will give the total share count for facebook.

Thanks

answered Dec 27, 2015 at 4:38

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