hashtags

Better control over hashtags for Instagram

This is a simple hashtag tool for specifying which hashtag to choose for your next Instagram post. Hitting the main page gives you a list. Click on the table row to add a hashtag to your list. Copy them at any time.

🤓 Stuff This takes an array of user generated hashtags (hashtag-list.php) and grabs the used count from instagram.com. It has no API calls and requires no dependancies. This is a mini-scrapper. It's not 100% accurate but gives you an idea of how many times a hashtag is used.

When viewing index.php you'll see a table of hashtags, with their counts. From there, you can select hashtags and copy them to your clipboard.

Demo

https://baker-lightning-32664.netlify.com/

Getting started

• Run this on an apache server
• Hit http://localhost/hashtags.php to compile the hashtags compiled file
• Run sh build.sh to generate the hashtags file into a static HTML file
• View build/index.html

Having trouble?

• Make sure permissions are set as 777. It's like you won the lottery! 🎰
• The initial build of hashtags takes a while. Make get a sandwich?

Contributing

• Add hashtags into hashtag-list.php
• Help with some of the TODOs below ⬇️

TODO

• Max the selection out at 30 hashtags
• Better way to build the hashtags file (database? faster calls? API? cron job to hit hashtag-list.php?)
• Deploy somewhere
• Split out CSS & JS files from index.php
• Build process?
• Loading indicator in hashtags.php?
• Maybe call hashtags.php and have some sort of logic in index.php to send the hashtag request with some $_GET[] and $_POST[] business