Firefox Instagram HashTag Search Add-on

The following extension adds a menu item to the right-click menu that enable you to search for the selected text. The words in the selected text is checked against a list of stop words. Subsequently, a configurable maximum number of limit words are chosen for Instagram hashtag search.

Create a folder named search_instagram and add the following manifest.json and search_instagram.js files to this folder.

	{
	"manifest_version": 2,
	"name": "Search Instagram",
	"version": "1.0",
	"description": "Searches Instagram hashtag for the Selected Text.",
	"permissions": ["contextMenus", "activeTab"],
	"background": {
	"scripts": ["search_instagram.js"]
	}
	}

view raw manifest.json hosted with ❤ by GitHub

	browser.contextMenus.create({
	id: "search-instagram",
	title: "Search Instagram",
	contexts: ["selection"]
	});
	browser.contextMenus.onClicked.addListener(function(info, tab) {
	if(info.menuItemId == "search-instagram"){
	var stop_words = ["a", "about", "above", "after", "again", "against", "all", "am", "an", "and", "any", "are", "as", "at", "be", "because", "been", "before", "being", "below", "between", "both", "but", "by", "could", "did", "do", "does", "doing", "down", "during", "each", "few", "for", "from", "further", "had", "has", "have", "having", "he", "he’d", "he’ll", "he’s", "her", "here", "here’s", "hers", "herself", "him", "himself", "his", "how", "how’s", "d", "ll", "m", "ve", "if", "in", "into", "is", "it", "it’s", "its", "itself", "let’s", "me", "more", "most", "my", "myself", "nor", "of", "on", "once", "only", "or", "other", "ought", "our", "ours", "ourselves", "out", "over", "own", "same", "she", "she’d", "she’ll", "she’s", "should", "so", "some", "such", "than", "that", "that’s", "the", "their", "theirs", "them", "themselves", "then", "there", "there’s", "these", "they", "they’d", "they’ll", "they’re", "they’ve", "this", "those", "through", "to", "too", "under", "until", "up", "very", "was", "we", "we’d", "we’ll", "we’re", "we’ve", "were", "what", "what’s", "when", "when’s", "where", "where’s", "which", "while", "who", "who’s", "whom", "why", "why’s", "with", "would", "you", "you’d", "you’ll", "you’re", "you’ve", "your", "yours", "yourself", "yourselves"];
	var limit = 5;
	var i;
	var j = 0;
	var letters = /^[A-Za-z]+$/;
	var tags = info.selectionText.split(" ");
	for(i = 0; i < tags.length; ++i){
	var tag = tags[i].toLowerCase();
	tag = tag.replace(",", "");
	tag = tag.replace("(", "");
	tag = tag.replace(")", "");
	tag = tag.replace(".", "");
	tag = tag.replace("!", "");
	tag = tag.replace(":", "");
	tag = tag.replace(";", "");
	if(stop_words.includes(tag)){
	continue;
	}
	tag = tag.replace("'", "");
	if(!tag.match(letters)){
	continue;
	}
	if(j > limit){
	break;
	}
	var searchInstagram = "https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/" + tag + "/?hl=en";
	browser.tabs.create({url: searchInstagram});
	++j;
	}
	}
	});

view raw search_instagram.js hosted with ❤ by GitHub

Go to about:debugging in Firefox and click Load Temporary Add-on and load the manifest.json file. Then right-click on the selected text on a webpage to do a hashtag search on Instagram.