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+# facebook-likes
+
+Command-line script to grab the number of likes for a URL or Facebook page.
+
+I wanted to move this out of my dotfiles, WIP as I need to make some improvements.
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+#!/bin/sh
+wget http://graph.facebook.com/$1 -q -O - | awk -F ',"(likes|shares)":' '{print substr($2, 0, length($2) - 1)}'