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Another note: you can create realistic share buttons by fetching the Like counts via JavaScript.

I run that on my own website and it works well.

Can you give me your website url, please?

In his profile - minimaxir.com

Whoops, it's in the profile. Sorry about that. (last time I linked directly to my website in a HN comment as an example of the implementation it was accused as self-promotion.)

It's not super advanced JS but it gets the job done.

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