title: Official way to fetch the number of tweets for a URL
body: <p>Twitter has private endpoints like this one:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json" rel="nofollow">http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json</a></p>
  
  <p>Tweet counts can be fetched from here, but this is not recommended by Twitter. Besides, they keep saying they gonna shut down these endpoints in the near future. </p>
  
  <p>The Site Streams API is now in closed beta, they don't accept applications.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://dev.twitter.com/streaming/sitestreams" rel="nofollow">https://dev.twitter.com/streaming/sitestreams</a></p>
  
  <p>So that leaves is with only one option, the REST API, but I don't see any endpoint there which could return the number of tweets for a given URL. </p>
  
  <p>What's the best way to get this data? Is there an "official" endpoint for this?</p>
  
  <p>Or the only way is to use something like the Public stream API or the REST API search endpoints and filter the results?</p>