Follower count widget for Scriptable App (iOS/iPad OS)

A simple widget to display social media follower counts using simonbs' app scriptable.

Functionality

• display follower/like/subscriber count for:
  • Twitter
  • Mastodon
  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • YouTube
• create widgets for multiple accounts on the same platform using parameters
• cache follower counts and use old values if there's an api error (which may happen more often, since every platform except Mastodon closed their public apis)
• see a graph of your followers over time (in development)

Screenshots

daytime	nighttime

medium-sized widgets with follower graph	medium-sized multi-widget and large widget with follower graph

use parameters to display multiple accounts	parameters for the widget on the top right (display twitter & override default twitter account with "aluhutt": display:twitter; twitter:aluhutt

Installation

1. install scriptable
2. copy follower-count.js to your scriptable folder in iCloud or copy the code directly into a new script in the scriptable app
3. fill in your preferred default usernames in the setup section in the beginning of the script

Usage

1. create a scriptable widget on your homescreen (chosse follower-count.js)
2. fill in parameters (optional)
3. wait a few seconds until all data is fetched

Parameters

parameters allow you to customize your widgets. they're seperated by a semicolon (; or ; ). example widget parameter strings: display:twitter, display:twitter,instagram; instagram:aluhutt.jpg, display:twitter; hidelabel:true.

prefix	value(s)	examples	explanation
display	twitter, mastodon, instagram, facebook, youtube, all, or a combination, e.g. twitter,instagram.	display:twitter, display:twitter,instagram, display:all	choose social network(s) to display (optional; default: all)
network name (twitter, mastodon, instagram, facebook, youtube)	your username (without a leading "@")	display:twitter; twitter:aluhutt, mastodon:[email protected], display:all; mastodon:[email protected]; twitter:aluhutt	overwrite username(s) (optional; overwrites default usernames in the config section below). this allows you to create widgets for different accounts on the same social media platform.
hidelabel	true, false	hidelabel:true, hidelabel (interpreted like hidelabel:true), hidelabel:false	hide "followers" / "subscribers" label (optional; default: set in the script's setup section)

Development

Roadmap

• find "ways" (api hacks) to get data from the initial five platforms
• create small widget that displays only one platform
• create small widget that displays multiple platforms
• write cache function that allows caching of followers over time (prerequisite for the graph feature)
• create medium-sized widget that displays only one platform + graph
• create medium-sized widget that displays multiple platforms
• create large-sized widget that displays only one platform + graph
• create large-sized widget that displays multiple platforms
• better error reporting
• add support for more platforms (e.g. Flickr)
• add support for more metrics than just follower counts

Known Bugs

no bug tracked yet. create an issue to let me know.