Get the Subscriber Count of a FeedBurner RSS Feed
Posted by: Lloyd Lopez in Blog, The InternetWhile checking JJ’s blog and her RSS problem, I stumbled about a trick to get some detailed statistics on about any FeedBurner feed as long as they have the FeedCount service activated.
This is useful if you want to find out a blog’s RSS subscriber count (if they really have guzzillions subscribers as they say).
For starters, you should know that the name of the FeedBurner feed is generally written after the slash. On my blog for example, the URL of the FeedBurner feed is feeds.feedburner.com/Lloydlopez wherein Lloydlopez is the feedname.
Get the latest subscriber count of a FeedBurner feed - All you have to do is type the following address in your Internet Explorer 7 or Firefox browser.
http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=Lloydlopez
You’ll see something like this on your browser:
<feed id="209896" uri="Lloydlopez">
<entry date="2008-08-03" circulation="92" hits="263" reach="10"/>
Here’s a brief overview of the data:
Circulation - the number of people who are subscribed to this feed.
Hits - the number of times that feed was requested by different RSS clients for that particular day.
Reach - the number of people who viewed or clicked the content in the feed.
Get the number of feed subscribers on any particular day - all you have to do is append the dates parameter to the address. Please note that the date should be in the format yyyy-mm-dd.
http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=Lloydlopez&dates=2008-08-03
Find the growth / decline in number of feed subscribers over a period of time - to get this data, we need to append two dates to the URL (the start date and the end date).
For example, lets see how the feed circulation count changed for a month from July 3, 2008 to August 3, 2008.
http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=Lloydlopez&dates=2008-07-03,2008-08-03
So there you go. A nice little trick to get something out from the FeedBurner service. For more details, you might want to also check out the FeedBurner API page.
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August 5th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Lloyd… You Rock!!! Thank you soooooo much for the tech help you gave me. I’m going to contact you because you took care of my “incoming link problem”. But there are still some things that I don’t understand. How do I correct the Feedburner/Rss problem that you said I probably have? This all effected my PageRank I think, by having the data transfered from one server to another. These are unusual circumstances since I bought a blog, and there were two servers involved at the time of the transaction. You saved me from being “Toast”. I will email you. And thanks again you are my hero. I really appreciate you taking the time to help me out, my friend!!! Will talk later. JJ
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August 5th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
P.S. I am definitely subsribing to your RSS, so add one more to your list. lol Glad I found you>last night JJ
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August 5th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
Good one. There are some blogs saying they get 1,000 subscribers and I don’t believe it for one minute. I knew there had to be a way to find out if it is true. I think this is useful to know.
August 8th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
August 12th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
This is an awesome thing. Thanks for pointing this out. I always see blogs like Darvie mentioned with tons of feed count, but I never believe them. Now there is a way to actually see if they are legit or not.
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August 13th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Darvie,
I found several bloggers doing that. They can’t hide their “real” FSC (feedburner subscriber count) anymore.
My Unusual Life,
No problem. At least this trick will be useful in the future.