“HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden” Error When Trying to Display Number of Facebook Shares

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After reading this question’s accepted answer, I’m pretty sure that I’m having the same issue: Facebook is blocking my IP, as my site is performing “too many” requests. Is there a way to either whitelist my IP, or retrieve Facebook’s shares for a particular URL somehow without this issue occurring?

I’m using this functionality in a WordPress plugin, and this plugin will be used on multiple sites, each with their own IPs.

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Thank you!

/ / / / / EDIT (10/9/2015, 5:07 MST)

I should have known that code would help: 

<?php 

//////////  FACEBOOK - SHARES  //////////
function getFacebookShares($url)
{
    $url = get_permalink($post_id);
    $title = get_the_title($post_id);
    $facebookcount = json_decode( file_get_contents( 'https://graph.facebook.com/?id='.$url ) );
    return $facebookcount->shares;
}
function FacebookShareCount($url)
{
    if(getFacebookShares($url) > 0){
        return number_format(getFacebookShares($url));
    }else{
        return 'Share';
    };
}

function fb_social_share_btn()
{ ?>

<a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=<?php the_permalink(); ?>" class="social-popup" data-popup="width=600,height=300">
    <div class="social-item">
        <span class="fa fa-facebook-official" data-count="<?php echo FacebookShareCount($url); ?>" data-social="fb"></span>
    </div>
</a>

<?php
}
?>

The Facebook share count seems to display for about a day, then stops, and gives me that error message above. I’ve tested this with 2 different URLs.

You guys are great. Thanks!

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