---
title: Getting Twitter Follower Count without Using API
date: 2014-07-28T07:46:12+00:00
modified: 2015-05-29T06:00:33+00:00
permalink: https://kaspars.net/blog/twitter-follower-count-without-api
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author:
  name: Kaspars
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category:
  - Development
post_tag:
  - How to
  - Snippet
---

# Getting Twitter Follower Count without Using API

Here is a quick way to get follower stats for any Twitter user without using the Twitter API. I found this via their [Follow button](https://about.twitter.com/resources/buttons) so please don’t consider this a permanent solution.

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

which returns something like this:

```
[
   {
      "following":false,
      "id":"17989067",
      "screen_name":"konstruktors",
      "name":"Kaspars",
      "protected":false,
      "followers_count":664,
      "formatted_followers_count":"664 followers",
      "age_gated":false
   }
]
```