Inspopular is a CLI to get easily the popularity of a list of hashtags in Instagram. No API is used in this tool. The information is extracted using HTTP requests.

The tool is actually simple and you just need to pass the list of hashtags you want to check.

$ ./inspopular go golang dev developer

The output of the command above would be something like this:

Hashtag      URL                                                 Posts
-------      ---                                                 -----
go           https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/go           14818638
developer    https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/developer    1237858
dev          https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/dev          428791
golang       https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/golang       11694

#go #developer #dev #golang

As you can see the results are sorted by popularity. You can change this by using the flag -s.

$ ./inspopular -s=false go golang dev developer

Or

$ ./inspopular -s="false" go golang dev developer

First of all you need to have the Go programming language installed. Then:

$ go get github.com/danielkvist/inspopular

Obviously, you can also use git to clone the repository.

Once the project has been downloaded. You only need to execute the following command into it.

$ go build /cmd/inspopular/main.go

You should also be able to install it with the following command:

$ go install /cmd/inspopular/main.go