honesthook · proof

Every number here is live. Run them yourself.

Each row below was fetched from our own public API at the timestamp at the bottom of this page, and shows the exact curl that returns it. Nothing is a mock, nothing is typed by hand — and the platforms that did not answer on this run are named, not hidden.

Live — 6 platforms

Run any of these and compare.

instagram @nasa · NASA104,357,600

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $HH_KEY" \
  "https://honesthook.com/api/v1/instagram/profile?handle=nasa"

tiktok @nasa · NASA1,711,912

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $HH_KEY" \
  "https://honesthook.com/api/v1/tiktok/profile?handle=nasa"

github @torvalds · Linus Torvalds323,639

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $HH_KEY" \
  "https://honesthook.com/api/v1/github/profile?handle=torvalds"

pinterest @nasa · NASA556,433

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $HH_KEY" \
  "https://honesthook.com/api/v1/pinterest/profile?handle=nasa"

bluesky @bsky.app · Bluesky34,912,758

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $HH_KEY" \
  "https://honesthook.com/api/v1/bluesky/profile?handle=bsky.app"

soundcloud @edsheeran · Ed Sheeran2,971,385

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $HH_KEY" \
  "https://honesthook.com/api/v1/soundcloud/profile?handle=edsheeran"

Under the hood

Finding the right field is the work.

Platforms ship more than one number for the same thing, and the obvious one is not always the account’s. Keeping up with that, per platform, is what you hand over.

stats.followerCount

1,600,000

statsV2.followerCount

1,585,971

Both numbers above come from one saved capture of @nasa on 2026-09-07, and that is the point: they have to come from the same document at the same instant, or they are not a pair. Our API returns the exact one; the rounded one only exists inside the platform’s own HTML. Today’s live TikTok number is in the table above.

What we do not do

The gaps are on purpose.

YouTube is not on this list. The Data API returns subscriberCount already rounded to three significant figures above 1,000 subscribers — a channel with 1,234,567 answers 1230000. Google rounds it at the source, and there is no exact value on any public surface. The route exists and is switched off in our catalogue, because the data path was never proved end to end — and a row here that we cannot reproduce with a curl is the one thing this page must not have.

Telegram is not here either, for the same reason with a worse edge: t.me publishes the exact number only below roughly 1,000 subscribers. The same endpoint would return exact sometimes and rounded other times, with no way for you to tell which one you got.

Where a platform does not publish a field, we return null — never 0. Linktree has no follower count at all, so followers comes back null: that means “this platform does not publish it”. A zero would be a claim about the account. Same for verified on GitHub, which has no verification badge to report.

Measured at 2026-09-15 19:02:09 UTC, straight from honesthook.com/api/v1/…, cached for one hour.

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