How to See Facebook Share Counts for a Specific Post / Page

• Blake Imeson
• 8 years ago
• Categories: Social Media

Ever wanted to see what the actual share count is for a URL? This trick is handy for troubleshooting share plugins (*ahem* MashShare) or even doing some competitive research.

All you need to do is form and access this URL:

http://graph.facebook.com/?id=URL_HERE

See for instance, this URL for a client post: http://graph.facebook.com/?id=http://blog.joemcnally.com/2016/10/13/royal-photographic-society/

Returns a share count of about 400 (at time of writing) See line 11 below: