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evansims/socialworth
====================

A simple PHP library for determining the popularity of a URL across social networks.

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Socialworth
===========

[](#socialworth)

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A simple PHP library for determining the popularity of a given URL by querying social network APIs.

It presently supports:

- Twitter (counts mentions and retweets)
- Facebook (counts likes, comments and shares)
- Google+ (+1s)
- Pinterest (shares)
- Reddit (counts submitted stories and upvotes)
- StumbleUpon views
- LinkedIn shares
- Hacker News *API service is currently offline.*
- Mozscape Backlinks *Retired.*

There a variety of use cases for this library; generating a list of your blog's most popular articles for optimizing placement, or featuring social network counters on your pages without relying on bloated external JavaScript includes.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

To add this package as a dependency for your project, simply add `evansims/socialworth` to your project's composer.json file. Here is an example of a minimal composer.json file:

```
{
    "require": {
        "evansims/socialworth": "*"
    }
}

```

Then run `composer install` to install the library. Composer generates a `vendor/autoload.php` file that you'll need to include in your project before invoking Socialworth:

```
require 'vendor/autoload.php';

```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

To query all supported services for a URL:

```

```

Alternatively you can query just one service:

```

```

Or leave out specific services from your query:

```

```

The `all()` method will return an object that you can use to grab individual service results or find the combined popularity from the services:

```

```

Demo Script
-----------

[](#demo-script)

A demo script is provided that allows you to query the library from your browser, or the command line.

To call the script from the command line ...

```
$ php demo.php https://github.com/

```

Or, to query individual services ...

```
$ php demo.php --twitter --facebook https://github.com/

```

If the demo script is accessible from your web server, you can pass a url ...

```
http://localhost/path/to/demo.php?url=https://github.com/

```

Whether from the CLI or the browser, you will receive a JSON object back.

```
{
    "total": 48217,
    "twitter": 26582,
    "facebook": 15284,
    "pinterest": 157,
    "reddit": 5,
    "googleplus": 6049,
    "stumbleupon": 297,
    "linkedin": 0
}

```

---

This work was inspired by Jonathan Moore's gist:

###  Health Score

35

—

LowBetter than 79% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity35

Limited adoption so far

Community13

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity58

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 92.9% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

4397d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3093?v=4)[Evan Sims](/maintainers/evansims)[@evansims](https://github.com/evansims)

---

Top Contributors

[![evansims](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3093?v=4)](https://github.com/evansims "evansims (13 commits)")[![Anahkiasen](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1321596?v=4)](https://github.com/Anahkiasen "Anahkiasen (1 commits)")

---

Tags

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