Get Your FeedBurner Reader Statistic Using PHP cURL and the FeedBurner API
Written by David Walsh on Thursday, July 24, 2008
My favorite part of the Web 2.0 revolution is the abundance of APIs. Everyone has one: Digg, Feedburner, Pownce, Flickr, Google Maps, etc. FeedBurner provides a sweet “Awareness API” that allows you to pull statistics from your FeedBurner account. Here’s how you do it using PHP cURL.
The PHP
//open connection
$ch = curl_init();
//set the url, number of POST vars, POST data
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,'http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?id=#######');
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,$timeout);
//execute post
$content = curl_exec($ch);
$subscribers = get_match('/circulation="(.*)"/isU',$content);
echo 'Subscribers: '.$subscribers;
//close connection
curl_close($ch);
/* helper: does the regex */
function get_match($regex,$content)
{
preg_match($regex,$content,$matches);
return $matches[1];
}
It’s that easy. What makes this even better is that I hate FeedBurner’s “badge” and I can manipulate the result of the above code any way I want. Click here to learn more about FeedBurner’s Awareness API and the information you can pull about your feed.
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Very nice; I would like this info, but I too hate the FeedBurner badges.
Nice!! I was considering finally putting my subscriber count on my site and you just made it a bit easier. Thanks!
Nice article, although not sure if i’ll be running it until I relaunch my blog with more than two subscribers.
Nice, i try it soon. thank you.
How can I use this same thing when m account is with google feedburner? feedburner.google.com
thankyou very much, from one web developer to another, will defo use…when i get more than one subscriber to my photo blog that is. lol cheers matthew