Programmatically get amount of facebook likes for a specific

Programmatically get amount of facebook likes for a specific page

I'm building a website in ASP.net/C# and currently I want to get the amount of Facebook likes of a specific page (think of a video/article). I need this value programmatically, because I want to sort on it later, but that's a different story.

I already know the link Facebook itself provides to get this amount, which is posted below.

With www.google.com being the website, whose links are being counted and can of course be changed to whichever page one needs.

Does anybody know how I can access the xml file, of the URL/XML file posted above? I've done some research, but I can't seem to find an answer that works for me.

EDIT: I found the answer. I had to navigate through the XML a bit and modify the actual URL used. Working code is posted below.

string result;

string urlToXMLfile, currentURL;

currentURL = Globals.NavigateURL(TabId, "", "CategoryId=" + catId, "MovieId=" + Request.QueryString["MovieId"]);

urlToXMLfile = "https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?query=select%20%20like_count%20from%20link_stat%20where%20url=%22";

urlToXMLfile += currentURL;

urlToXMLfile += "%22";

//XDocument xdoc = XDocument.Load(urlToXMLfile);

//string test = xdoc.Descendants(XName.Get("like_count")).First().Value;

XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();

doc.Load(urlToXMLfile);

result = doc.FirstChild.NextSibling.InnerText;

return result;