Is it just me or is the recent surge of DataNitro scripts just proof of concepts? I don't really want to do get Facebook Likes in Excel or play Blackjack. They added a Python handler in Excel to do this, it isn't native.

My question is, why is this interesting?

Competitor analysis with simple Excel tools. Hm.. I like that ! I wonder if you could build a whole Excel application for social media tracking. There are companies out there that are very successful in this space. Perhaps with your superior technology you could outdo them!

The script is not getting 'likes,' it's pulling the number of 'shares' for a particular URL.

If you want to get to a brand's like-count, you'll need to feed the Graph API with either the Facebook Username of the account (e.g. "nike", not "http://www.nike.com "), or with the Facebook ID# of the brand (e.g. "15087023444").

Is there a version of DataNitro for Office for Mac?

Some poor schmuck is wrangling excel spreadsheets with facebook integration for clueless twits, somewhere.

Glad it's not me.

Python is awesome.

Pretty good for a first program! :)