Socialblade instagram live statistic

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aragonthebest

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• Sep 24, 2017

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How can a Website like socialblade, provide a livestatistic, which updates every second?
I think it would have to make many many many calls to instagram, to get the actual followercount. And I don't think, that Instagram would be happy with so manny calls. So how do they do it?

 

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• Sep 24, 2017

• #2

They use Instagram API --> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface.

https://www.instagram.com/developer/
https://developers.facebook.com/products/instagram/

 

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aragonthebest

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Yes but, even the instagram api has limits in the number of calls you can do in a specific timeframe. And I think they have way more calls than instagram allows through the api

 

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• Sep 24, 2017

• #4

They probably just use a ton of access tokens.

https://www.instagram.com/developer/limits/

Global rate limits are applied inclusive of all API calls made by an app per access token over the 1-hour sliding window, regardless of the particular endpoint. Rate limits also apply to invalid or malformed requests.

CLIENT STATUS RATE LIMIT
Sandbox 500 / hour

Live 5000 / hour​

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hmmm ok, yes that could be the trick to do this