How to automate article share and verifying that item shared successfully with facebook, twitter and google plus

[SharmaSumit]

I am automating one application in which I have one scenario to share an article with facebook, Google plus, and twitter and verify that article shared successfully. I have written script for article sharing but how to verify that article has been shared. Can anybody suggest me how to automate this scenario?

Regards,
Sumit Kumar Sharma.

[wreed]

All of the services that you need have public API's that will give you this information programmatically. This would be the easiest way. Start reading here:

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/public_feed/
https://developers.google.com/+/web/api/rest/
https://dev.twitter.com/overview/documentation

Alternatively you could try using Selenium and interacting with the web pages for these products, but if you just to verify a post then using the API is the way to do it.

[Chirag_Singh]

@wreed

Thanks for sharing such a good knowledge. Could you please explain how can we use these API? I never use API before.

It would be good if you provide some code in java to verify post using these API.

Thanks in advance!!

[wreed]

Explaining how to use a Rest API is quite a large topic. You would be better served by reading a tutorial specifically on that. There are a ton of them just a google search away, but here is one that looks good and has examples in a bunch of different languages (including Java):

http://rest.elkstein.org/2008/02/what-is-rest.html

[SharmaSumit]

Thanks a lot @wreed I will look into these documents..