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Shweta Kale
Shweta Kale

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Fluencr - Find Instagram Influencer For your brand

đź§  AI-Powered Influencer Discovery Engine

What I Built

I built an AI-powered platform that helps brands discover ideal influencers by tapping into real-time social media data. Unlike static influencer directories, this tool dynamically finds creators who align with a brand’s tone, values, target audience, and preferred content style.

The system uses an AI agent to:

  • Collect brand intent via a clean, guided interface
  • Generate a natural language brief for influencer matching
  • Transform that into search signals (hashtags, keywords, captions)
  • Crawl Instagram in real time using Bright Data's MCP

This lets brands find relevant, high-performing influencers based on their current content—not stale bios or outdated databases.


Demo

GitHub Repo: github.com/raibove/Fluencr

Live Demo: https://fluencr.pages.dev/

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How I Used Bright Data's Infrastructure

To power the real-time influencer discovery system, I used Bright Data’s MCP (Mobile Cloud Proxy) and automation tools. Here's how it helped:

🔍 Discover – Crawler-Based Search

  • Used Search Engine Crawler API to scan TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube content based on AI-generated hashtags, keywords, and even video transcript data.
  • Dynamically prioritized posts with high engagement and recency.

🧭 Access – Platform Navigation with JS Rendering

  • Platforms like TikTok and Instagram require login, scrolling, and human behavior simulation.
  • Bright Data’s helped avoid detection and ensure reliability.

📥 Extract – Scraping Key Data

  • Collected structured content:
    • Creator handles, bios, and follower count
    • Common hashtags and captions
    • Engagement stats and collaboration links
    • Video transcripts (when available)
  • Stored this data with content embeddings for future AI-based matching.

Performance Improvements

Traditional influencer tools rely on pre-populated databases or partner networks, which are:

  • Often outdated
  • Miss dynamic trends
  • Lack true intent-based matching

By using real-time social content scraping, I was able to:

  • Surface creators based on live content behavior
  • Identify micro-influencers aligned with niche values like sustainability or tech innovation
  • Deliver 10x more relevant results for brands with very specific audience goals

Tech Stack

Layer Tools Used
Frontend React
Backend AI Cloudflare Worker + GPT-4
Scraping Infra Bright Data MCP

App Flow: From Brand Brief to Influencer Match

  1. Enter Brand Details

    → Dropdowns for brand tone, audience, platform, values

  2. AI Improves Prompt

    → GPT-4 generates a structured brand profile:

    “Looking for creators who post funny, women-focused, Gen Z content around self-love on Instagram”

  3. Generate Search Signals

    → AI outputs hashtags, content types, keywords

  4. Search & Extract

    → Bright Data crawls platforms, simulates interaction, and extracts data

  5. Deliver Matches

    → Ranked influencer shortlist with metrics and links


Final Thoughts

This tool blends AI prompt generation, real-time web scraping, and content analysis to solve one of the biggest challenges in influencer marketing: finding creators who truly align with a brand’s evolving voice and values.

By using Bright Data’s infrastructure, I was able to go beyond APIs and get dynamic, actionable insights directly from the platforms that matter.

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Ansell Maximilian

Looks great! I like the name

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Shweta Kale

Thank you!

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Nathan Tarbert

Pretty cool stuff - feels like this is actually useful for finding people that fit, not just some spreadsheet of random names

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Shweta Kale

Thank you! I'm glad you think the same. I have so many ideas to extend this and turn it into a full SAAS.

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Ranjan Dailata • Edited

The Live demo, GitHub link are not working; it's redirecting to the same blog post.

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Shweta Kale

Oh, thank you so much for letting me know.
I don’t think I can make any changes now.

For anyone interested, here are the relevant links:
Github: github.com/raibove/Fluencr
Deployed link: fluencr.pages.dev/

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Ranjan Dailata

You can still edit the blog post.

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Shweta Kale

But since the submission time has ended, won't that lead to disqualification?

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Ranjan Dailata

I believe, it's perfectly fine to edit.

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Noah Kalson

You can still edit

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Shweta Kale

Thanks for conforming.
Sorry to bother you but just to be sure...
I can only edit the links right?
or other parts of blog post as well, like let's say if I want to add more details.

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Mukul Rana

Great Project , I like it!