Get the number of likes on the pages of the site?

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Good day!
Please tell me how to solve this problem. There is a site with a VKontakte "Like" button on the pages. It is necessary to make the block "Most popular on the site" with a list of articles sorted by likes.
From which side to approach the decision?

Answer 1

https://vk.com/dev/likes.getList
Example:

https://api.vk.com/method/likes.getList?type=sitepage&owner_id=2018480&page_url=http://lifehacker.ru/2013/11/11/kogda-pora-brosat-pit/&filter=likes

Answer 2

They did it for themselves, something like this. But I think it's better through the API

$contents = file_get_contents('http://vk.com/share.php?act=count&index=1&url='.$url);
preg_match('/VK\.Share\.count\(1, ([0-9]+)\)/', $contents, $matches);
if(isset($matches[1])){
  $counters['vk'] = (int) $matches[1];
}

Answer 3

Probably, you need to approach the solution from the VK API .