Pinterest Followers display

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1. Maybe it will be helpful for someone.
   To get the number of account followers:

   <?php
   $metas = get_meta_tags('http://pinterest.com/pinterest/');
   print_r($metas['pinterestapp:followers']);
   

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2. Yes, you can use the Pinterest API. Install curl and use that in a PHP script. Example:

   $ch = curl_init();
   curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://pinterestapi.co.uk/"""yourname"""/likes');
   curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
   curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 0);
   $json = curl_exec($ch);
   curl_close($ch);
   

   It’s supposed to return something like this note that “””yourname””” is your Pinterest account name:

   {
   "body": [
   {
   "href": "http://pinterest.com/pin/150026231307331200/",
   "src": "http://media-cache-ec3.pinterest.com/upload/228979962274567868_qVshovBS_b.jpg",
   "desc": "#london",
   "user": "Louise Earl",
   "via": "Kris Mitchell",
   "board": "Ideal"
   },
   {
   "href": "http://pinterest.com/pin/287104544965407998/",
   "src": "http://media-cache-ec8.pinterest.com/upload/287104544965407998_z3kbynbX_b.jpg",
   "desc": "hipsters vs old people",
   "user": "Lucy Foulkes",
   "via": false,
   "board": "cool"
   }
   ],
   "meta": {
   "count": 2
   }
   }
   

   Since this returns a json string you´ll need to decode it.

   $count = json_decode($json, true);
   $count = $count['meta']['count'];
   

   I don’t know if curl is available when hosting your site on WordPress but might be worth a try. In your case the “count” in that string is probably what you want.

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3. I managed to do it with this plugin http://wordpress.org/plugins/pinterest-badge/

   I added it as a widget. I made the number of pins = 0 and no title.

   See screenshot below:

   

   You can edit the styles to your liking as well as change the “Followed by…” text in the plugin files!

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