As many of you know, Google Webmaster will show you the number of backlinks there are to your website. However, does anyone know if there is a script that uses Google's API so that I can show that number somewhere on my website?

Please and thank you

Why??????

It is just being used for tracking purposes for a website I am working on. I couldn't figure out any way to do it but I normally find a solution when I come here

There is absolutely no way at all that you can even FIND a count of your backlinks never mind display it.

Google webmaster tools will show you a possibly less inaccurate tally than the link: search will.

But as something to display on your website?

Google Webmaster shows significantly more accurate results that link: shows. I have one website the Webmaster reports having over 540,000 backlinks. However, link: only reports 77.

It is just being setup in a private part of the website for certain members for tracking purposes for a marketing campaign.

BTW there is no link count feed in the webmater tools API.