How to get followers count from Social Platforms in PHP with jQuery?

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In this blog we describe how you can get followers count from Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter profile URL.

When you enter a Facebook or Instagram URL in the text field and click on the button then contact information like; name, email, profile picture and description will also get from their social account.

For get followers we have to use some jQuery code snippets.

Facebook Follower count:

By using Facebook graph api you can get social count from Facebook. For this you require an access token and you can get this from here https://developers.facebook.com/docs/marketing-apis/overview/authentication/. After getting access token you can use jquery following code to get followers.

var link11 = document.getElementById('FacebookPageURL').value; 
link11 = stipTrailingSlash(link11);
var link2 = link11.split( '/' );	
var user = link2[link2.length - 1];
var token = 'Your Token';
		
      $.ajax({
        url: 'https://graph.facebook.com/'+user,
        dataType: 'json',
        type: 'GET',
        data: {
          access_token:token,
          fields:'fan_count,name,about,emails,website,location'
        },
        success: function(data) { 
            console.log(JSON.stringify(data));
      /*write your own code*/
       }
});

Twitter Follower count:

For getting Twitter follower count we can use jQuery ajax call with the following PHP code. There is no access token required in this process.

jQuery Code:
var link11 = document.getElementById('TwitterURL').value;		
link11 = stipTrailingSlash(link11);							 
var link2 = link11.split( '/' );		 
var twitter_user = link2[link2.length - 1];
 $.ajax({
        url: 'your php file path',
        dataType: 'json',
        type: 'GET',
        data: {
          user:twitter_user,
          social_type:'twitter'          
        },
        success: function(data) { 
           var followers = parseInt(data);  
           document.getElementById('TwitterReach').value = addCommas(followers); 
		
      }
});

PHP file code:

$user = $_GET['user'];
$data =file_get_contents("https://cdn.syndication.twimg.com/widgets/followbutton/info.json?screen_names=$user");
$data = json_decode($data, true);
echo isset($data[0]['followers_count']) ? $data[0]['followers_count'] : json_decode(false);

YouTube Follower count:

For YouTube we required an API Key to get followers. You can access this url https://rapidapi.com/blog/how-to-get-youtube-api-key/ for get api key. After that you can use the following code to get a follower count.

var link11 = document.getElementById('YouTubeChannelURL').value;		
link11 = stipTrailingSlash(link11);							 
var link2 = link11.split( '/' );		 
var user = link2[link2.length - 1];
$.ajax({
        url: 'https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels',
        dataType: 'jsonp',
        type: 'GET',
        data:{
          part:'statistics',
          id:user,
          key: 'Your youtube key'
        },
        success: function(data) {        
          if(data.items && data.items !='undefined' && data.items.length != 0){
          var subscribers = parseInt(data.items[0].statistics.subscriberCount);
         document.getElementById('YouTubeReach').value = addCommas(subscribers); 
          }
});

Instagram Follower count:

For Instagram follower count we can go with jQuery InstagramFeed https://www.sowecms.com/demos/jquery.instagramFeed/index.html

By using this jQuery you can fetch Instagram Social Count and Instagram Photo Gallery as well.

By using the following code we can get follower count data.

<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.instagramFeed.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
    (function($){
        $(window).on('load', function(){
            $.instagramFeed({
                'username': 'instagram',
                'callback': function(data){
                    $('#jsonHere').html(JSON.stringify(data, null, 2));
                }
            });
        });
    })(jQuery);
</script>

By using the above information you can get the social count of Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.