Track World Cup 2026 Social Buzz With a Simple Node.js Script

The 2026 FIFA World Cup starts June 11 across the US, Canada, and Mexico. 48 teams for the first time ever. More matches, more upsets, more chaos -- and a ridiculous amount of social media activity. Headlines will tell you who won. Social data tells you who the internet is actually talking about, which fan bases are the loudest, and which underdog is going viral before the pundits catch on. I built a tracker that pulls real-time social intelligence on World Cup teams using LunarCrush's API. It processes 50M+ social posts per hour across X, Reddit, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, and 10K+ news sources. Here's how to build it yourself. GitHub repo: JoeVezzani/world-cup-tracker What we're building A Node.js script that: Tracks social volume, sentiment, and engagement for any World Cup team Compares teams head-to-head (USA vs Mexico, Argentina vs Brazil, etc.) Ranks all 48 teams by social buzz to find who's trending Surfaces the most viral posts driving each team's conversation Setup mkdir wor