Reload the comment count of Disqus

Question

I am loading articles with AJAX. When I want to show their comment counts I use:

DISQUSWIDGETS.getCount();

This works. But when I load more articles and call the function again it does not show the comment counts of the articles. It also does not give any error. Is there a way to solve this problem in Javascript?

Answer 1

It might be something of a hack, but this works:

# Undefine disquswidgets to force a refresh also on ajax reload
window.DISQUSWIDGETS = undefined;
$.getScript("http://" + disqus_shortname + ".disqus.com/count.js");

Basically you trick Disqus into believing that the typeof is undefined, which will make it execute the same code again as it does the first time it's run.

Answer 2

You should use this:

DISQUSWIDGETS.getCount({reset: true});

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