Node Social Counter

A node-js server to provide social sharing, and visits statistics. It outsources the heavy work of performing the several request to each social network and responses with the collected data to a url of your choosing where you can for example save it to a database.

Prerequisites:

For Node Social Counter to work, you need node.js (nodejs.org) and npm (comes with node.js) installed in the server

Installation & set up

1. Download node-social-counter from https://github.com/leanazulyoro/node-social-counter You can download the zipball, or use git to clone: $ git clone https://github.com/leanazulyoro/node-social-counter.git

2. Install dependencies: $ cd /path/to/realtime-node-js $ npm install

The "node_modules" directory is created with the following modules in it:

• node-syslog
• request
• xml2js

3. create a configuration json file (see config.example.json) with the following data:

{ "port": "9187", "host": "127.0.0.1", "interval": 5, // cada cuanto flushea "recalc_after": 20, // cada cuanto vuelve a consultar a las APIS de las redes "logLevel": ["INFO", "ERROR", "DEBUG"], "endpoint": "http://local.stable.tn.com.ar/nsc/save_counts", // a donde hace el POST (flush) "flushtimeout": 10, // timeout del POST (flush) "safe_hosts": ["tn.com.ar", "prepro.tn.com.ar", "local.next.tn.com.ar", "local.stable.tn.com.ar", "pre.tn.com.ar"], "facebook": { // Facebook settings "fb_timeout": 5, "fb_hits_required": 3 // hits required to call facebook api }, "twitter": { // Twitter settings "tw_timeout": 5, }, "google": { // Google settings "g_timeout": 5, } }

Host & port: the ip address or domain for the host the server is installed in. Interval: this value sets the interval (in seconds) in which collected data is sent to the procesing server. Recalc_after: this value specifies the amount of time (in seconds) that a given url is ignored before it is recalculated. Logging: enables logging to syslog when requests fail. Endpoint: this is the url in the server where collected data will be sent to (via POST).

4. Start the service, specifing the path to the configuration file: $ /path/to/node-social-counter/bin/nsc /path/to/config.json