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Instagram followers counter Integration for Home Assistant

This integration adds a sensor that retrieves the number of Instagram followers for a specified user.

🛠️ Installation

1.Add this repository to your HACS with the following button:

Open your Home Assistant instance and open a repository inside the Home Assistant Community Store.

2.Install this integration with the follwing button:

Open your Home Assistant instance and start setting up a new integration.

3.Enter Instagram Account name and Token and press Submit. Configuration

❓How to get token

  1. To get token you need to create an account on https://rapidapi.com/,
  2. Search for instagram scraper api https://rapidapi.com/social-api1-instagram/api/instagram-scraper-api2 and press Subscribe for Basic Instagram API
  3. Token is your x-rapidapi-key Token

🤷‍♂️ How it works?

  1. Every 6 hours there is an API call to get instagram followers counter.
  2. There is a 500 API Calls limit per month

🎯 Results

Result

🤝 Contributing

You can contribute by creating a PR, but also by testing:

  • Provide general feedback or report issues.

🛟 Need help?

If you have a feature request or encounter a problem, feel free to open an issue! Have a general question, need help setting up then go to the discussions.