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Read JSON Object without API
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<h1 class="follower"></h1> | |
<?php | |
$instagramUsername = "instagram"; | |
// Get Instagram page source code | |
$instagram = file_get_contents('http://instagram.com/'.$instagramUsername); | |
// extract follower count from json with regex | |
$pattern = '/\"edge_followed_by\":\{\"count\":[0-9]{1,10}\}/'; | |
preg_match_all($pattern, $instagram, $results); | |
$string = print_r($results[0][0],true); | |
// Transform result to JSON type | |
$myJsonObject = "{".$string."}"; | |
?> | |
<script> | |
// Transfer PHP variable to Javascript | |
var js_Obj = '<?php echo $myJsonObject;?>' | |
// String to JSON object | |
obj = JSON.parse(js_Obj); | |
console.log(obj.edge_followed_by); | |
// Prepare and send to HTML | |
document.getElementById("follower").innerHTML = JSON.stringify(obj.edge_followed_by["count"]); | |
</script> |
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