How to get number of googleplus page followers? - google-plus

Question

is there actually a possibility to get the number of followers of my googleplus-page. the following script - which I found here in an earlier post - doesn't work (no output):
$google_api_key = 'XYZXYZXYZXYZXYZXYZ';
$page_id = 'MYNUMERICPAGEID';
$data = #file_get_contents("https://www.googleapis.com/plus/v1/people/$page_id?key=$google_api_key");
$data = json_decode($data, true);
echo $data['plusOneCount'];
thank you!

Answer 1

There could be a few things wrong:
Don't have an updated project on the Developer Console.
Didn't enable the API for that project.
Are past thresholds/quotas.
Try the following:
Login to your Google Developers Console
You'll need a project.
If you don't have a project, create one.
Enable "Google Plus API" on that project.
Confirm usage/quotes are within tolerance and you haven't gone past.
From there, your call should work as normal:
GET https://www.googleapis.com/plus/v1/people/{USER_ID}?key={YOUR_API_KEY}
In my case, I'm querying Google's's page, so {USER_ID} = 116899029375914044550. I can then see the plusOneCount:
{
"kind": "plus#person",
"etag": "\"RqKWnRU4WW46-6W3rWhLR9iFZQM/bTf-sq_Sg3fLAFijixPfjtKM5f8\"",
"urls": [
{
"value": "http://www.google.com",
"type": "website",
"label": "www.google.com"
},
{
"value": "http://www.google.com/support/",
"type": "other",
"label": "Google Help"
},
{
"value": "http://googleblog.blogspot.com/",
"type": "other",
"label": "Official Blog"
},
{
"value": "http://twitter.com/#!/google",
"type": "other",
"label": "#google"
},
{
"value": "http://www.google.com/about/corporate/company/",
"type": "other",
"label": "Company Info"
},
{
"value": "http://www.google.com/press/",
"type": "other",
"label": "News"
},
{
"value": "http://www.google.com/press/google-directory.html",
"type": "other",
"label": "More Google pages"
}
],
"objectType": "page",
"id": "116899029375914044550",
"displayName": "Google",
"tagline": "News and updates on Google's products, technology and more",
"aboutMe": "<p>Welcome to Google's official page. Here, you'll find product news and announcements, company updates, glimpses into what it's like to work at Google, discussions on technology and the web, and much more. </p><p><span>Given the volume of feedback we receive here, we may not be able to respond individually to every comment and we're not able to provide product support (if you're having product issues, please visit our Help Center). Rest assured we're paying attention, and we're always eager to hear from you.</span></p>",
"url": "https://plus.google.com/+google",
"image": {
"url": "https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-v0soe-ievYE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAC9wQ/JD8tdz3bFTM/photo.jpg?sz=50",
"isDefault": false
},
"isPlusUser": true,
"plusOneCount": 10757884,
"circledByCount": 7692912,
"verified": true,
"cover": {
"layout": "banner",
"coverPhoto": {
"url": "https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-PLPoXvnN0XI/UTdr4xTtuHI/AAAAAAAA_1U/p1n_Za3BZUg/s630-fcrop64=1,00000000fe06fe97/g_plus_background.png",
"height": 528,
"width": 940
},
"coverInfo": {
"topImageOffset": 0,
"leftImageOffset": 0
}
}
}