How to Get Instagram Followers Count using JQuery?
Today, I am going to share with you how to retrieve number of followers, media, followed by you, username, profile picture, fullname etc by using jquery ajax. You can simply get count in your PHP Project or any php framework also like laravel, codeigniter, symfony etc.
When i was working on my php project and i require to get count total instagram followers of me. I did search a lot but i nothing get good on PHP, Finally i was thinking if it is possible by jquery ajax then it will be best. Again i search more and finally got something. In this solution we have to generate access token for out instagram profile details, Without token Instagram will never give you profile details so, First thing you have to get Token from bellow Link:
Generate Your Token:
Ok, After generate token, we will use it on our bellow example, So you have to assign bellow example code "token" variable, So let's follow bellow example and you can also check demo, After generate your token. In this example i just get total followers, but you can get also fullname, username, total number of media etc, you can check on demo.
index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>How to count Instagram Followers without authentication</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.1.1/jquery.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<h3>Total Follower : <strong class="instagram"></strong></h3>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var token = '4161216023.1677ed0.431793ced855424ca3d8797f2394e983';
$.ajax({
url: 'https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/self',
dataType: 'jsonp',
type: 'GET',
data: {access_token: token},
success: function(data){
var follows = data['data']['counts']['follows'];
$(".instagram").text(follows);
},
error: function(data){
console.log(data);
}
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
You can get as response on data variable like as bellow preview:
Data variable response
{
"data": {
"website": "",
"username": "itsolutionstuff",
"profile_picture": "https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/t51.2885-19/s150x150/14566703_1220089754724188_3794670203778891776_a.jpg",
"id": "4161216023",
"bio": "",
"counts": {
"followed_by": 11,
"media": 2,
"follows": 2
},
"full_name": "Haresh Patel"
},
"meta": {
"code": 200
}
}
I hope it can help you...
