How to Get Number of Twitter Followers Count without API?

By Hardik Savani November 5, 2023 Category : jQuery

In this post i going to share with you How to get total twitter followers count from twitter username without api authentication or token.

Yesterday i was working on my laravel 5 application and i require to get count total twitter followers from username. I did search a lot but i nothing get good on laravel or 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.

We can simply get number of twitter followers by using cdn widgets, So we are going to use bellow cdn with screen_name = twitter username as like bellow:

https://cdn.syndication.twimg.com/widgets/followbutton/info.json?screen_names=twitterusername

In bellow full example you can see how it is work and how to get it. You can also see demo for your username.

index.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <title>How to count Twitter 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></strong></h3>
 </div>

 <script type="text/javascript">

  var twitter_username = 'itsolutionstuff';

  $.ajax({
    url: "https://cdn.syndication.twimg.com/widgets/followbutton/info.json?screen_names="+twitter_username,
    dataType : 'jsonp',
    crossDomain : true
  }).done(function(data) {
    $("h3 strong").text(data[0]['followers_count']);
  });

 </script>

</body>
</html>

You can get as response on data variable like as bellow preview:

Data variable response

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[
	{
	"following":false,
	"id":"705077241378549760",
	"screen_name":"itsolutionstuff",
	"name":"It Solution Stuff",
	"protected":false,
	"followers_count":175,
	"formatted_followers_count":
	"175 followers",
	"age_gated":false
	}
]

I hope it can help you...

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