title: Java Library / API for share counts (count likes, tweets, +1s)
body: <p>I've seen individual solutions to querying the tweet count, share count etc:
  Some are client side, some are server side, but they are all very simple and use public JSON / REST APIs</p>
  
  <p>e.g. </p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5699270/how-to-get-share-counts-using-graph-api">How to get share counts using graph API</a></p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5016082/jquery-plugin-or-routine-to-find-tweet-count">jquery plugin or routine to find tweet count</a> </p>
  
  <p>There is this <a href="https://github.com/vitobotta/share_counts" rel="nofollow noreferrer">GitHub project</a>, but it's in Ruby (I need Java unfortunately, though I can use JRuby as a last resort) and also haven't been updated in 2 years (which is ages in terms of public APIs, e.g. Twitter)</p>
  
  <p>Is there a any Java library that gets you the share / votes / likes / tweets count for any given URL?</p>