Update data from external links (Instagram, Twitter, Spotify...)

Hm, you could potentially do this with a webscraping service, but you'd need to have a fair amount of JavaScript knowledge to deal with that I reckon.  Super interested to hear options from other people though!

That’s a great project! Automating follower counts for platforms like Spotify, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok is definitely possible using their respective APIs (Spotify, for instance, has a well-documented public API). You could write a script to fetch and update the data either on a schedule or on demand for selected artists. It’ll save you a ton of manual work in the long run!

You can try using APIs from each platform with a tool like Make or Zapier to fetch follower counts and update Airtable automatically. Might need some token setup, but it's doable and saves a ton of manual work.

i’ve helped a few social media agencies do this - depending on your technical level there are a few options. easiest would be using Apify for social media platforms and data fetcher or make/zapier and you could run an airtable automation on a schedule (e.g. every day, week, etc.) to call the API and update the relevant fields. spotify you can do direct. 

happy to jump on a call if helpful!

I’ve actually worked on something similar, and manually updating follower counts can get tedious really quickly. What helped me was using APIs or simple automation scripts to pull data from platforms like Spotify and Twitter, though some platforms like Instagram and TikTok have more restrictions. I usually set it up so I can refresh the data on demand for a selected list of artists instead of doing it manually every time. If you’re managing everything through this website, you could integrate a backend script or use third-party tools to fetch and update the follower counts automatically.