About: Hey everyone! My name is Brian and thanks for checking my Instructables. I'm a software developer by trade but I've recently gotten into Arduino development after discovering the esp8266 chip, a WiFi enable…

Hey Everyone,

This is a instructable for a social media stats counter, that fetches and displays data from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instructables. I've seen commercial solutions for this cost over $400, but the total cost of this project was less $20.

These days there are APIs for everything! With this project I wanted to show how the ESP8266 can be used to integrate with these APIs.

There are 4 arduino libraries that I have written used in this project that integrates with the APIs. The YouTube one you might have seen before (bekathwia uses for a really cool project), but I wrote 3 new APIs just for this project: one for Twitter, Facebook and one for Instructables. These APIs allow you to connect to the various services and fetch data from them, directly from the ESP8266. Each of these libraries can be used individually if you have a project where you want to fetch the data from just one of these endpoints.

To be honest I wanted to add more to this project before submitting, such as Instagram and Twitch but I just ran out of time as I wanted to submit for the microcontroller competition. The project could easily be extended in the future though.

Hopefully you find the project interesting and please let me know if you have questions.



So lets get started!