Instagram no longer provides follower count

[GFBsoul]

Instagram no longer lists follower count in the url that social media counter parses.
I think we need a new approach. This should be possible with the Facebook developer credentials.
I'm not a coder, so I'm afraid I can't provide any solution.

[paulfp]

Ah yes you're right, it's a shame! I'm planning to pick this project up again later this year so will try to find a new solution. I'm not confident about the Facebook approach though because they have to approve API access for the app (and they refused for this one previously) just to view a follower count for a page, which seems crazy to me as it's hardly private info.

[GFBsoul]

I'm glad you are picking the project up again!
I might not be able to code the thing, but I can always help out to try and find a good source for the data.
I'm also in the process of getting something approved through Facebook developers. But it seems like way too much work for a project like. You would like to get this thing up and running within a day.

[fenau88]

i saw that the code is under "userInteractionCount" in the sourcecode of the page
i hope this helps

[fenau88]

We found a solution, change this with the complett instagram part, not the best solution but it works

// Get Instagram followers
if(!is_null($instagramUsername)) {
$url = 'https://www.instagram.com/' . $instagramUsername;
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
$output = curl_exec($ch);

preg_match('/userInteractionCount\"\:\"(.*?)\"/', $output, $followerCount);
$instagramFollowers=$followerCount[1];

}