How To Display Feedburner Subscriber Count In Text

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I believe you’ve seen websites and blogs that uses the text-based Feedburner subscriber count instead of the chicklet. I hope you are not getting the idea the these guys update their feed count manually. Instead, it can be done easily with scripts, and the reason why you want to do is - it gives you total flexibility in terms of design, styling and display.

Step 1

Copy paste the following code in your template, replace feedburner-id with your Feedbuner username. This script will grab you the feed count in numbers.


<?php
  //get cool feedburner count
  $whaturl="http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=rss4real";

//Initialize the Curl session
  $ch = curl_init();

//Set curl to return the data instead of printing it to the browser.
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  //Set the URL
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $whaturl);
  //Execute the fetch
  $data = curl_exec($ch);
  //Close the connection
  curl_close($ch);

$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($data);
  $fb = $xml->feed->entry['circulation'];

//end get cool feedburner count
  ?>

Step 2

Paste this anywhere you want and it’ll display a feedburner subscriber count in text.

<?php echo $fb;?>

To style it nicely with your website or blog’s theme, add <p> or <div> and tweak the CSS accordingly.

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Comments

rei July 1st, 2008

hey..thats easy, thanks..u just gave me an idea how to fake the number..lol
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hongkiat July 1st, 2008

@rei Yeah but there’s really no point faking because it’s easy to find out if someone is faking it :-)
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Johnson July 1st, 2008

thank you very much for this beautiful piece of code as i was looking for this from a long time,

just because i needed to use this for my new blog template…
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rei July 1st, 2008

no..i was just kidding, i always wonder how to get the feedburner stat..till i read it here, nice post
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Danny July 1st, 2008

Very useful tip man :)
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Ramy July 1st, 2008

Thanks.. Dugg. :)
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Htoo Tay Zar July 1st, 2008

Thanks a lot mate!! Now, I can design my feed counter text =) thanks
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A Suresh Kumar July 1st, 2008

Excellent Code, i am searching for integrating this concept in my blog. i will do it now.
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Friendstermod July 1st, 2008

Wow, I think I should use that code. But I still wonder how to do that at my other blog (blogger based)..
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Lee July 3rd, 2008

Nice information. :)
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Juan Carlos July 8th, 2008

thanks for the trick

;)
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Rúben M. July 30th, 2008

I am using this for about 2 weeks i use a simple style :) but i recommend this code, is awesome to use lol
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Marco August 4th, 2008

If your server doesn’t support CURL, you can also try to load the XML file created by Feedburner.

To do so, please read the following article:
http://www.marcofolio.net/webdesign/show_your_feedcount_the_way_you_want.html

Keep on bloggin,,,
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Tony August 5th, 2008

I think there needs to be a note about caching the result. Feedburner stats update just once each day; and it’s really not a good idea to have to wait for an external page to be loaded and parsed, before any of your own pages even begin to render.
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Fubiz August 8th, 2008

Thanks for the tips.
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Eudes August 12th, 2008

Hey ! something is wrong !

I am getting 1662 feed readers!! :)

I don´t have that much.

Have any one gone through this too??

Am I missing something??
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Eudes August 12th, 2008

never mind, never mind…..just read

http://code.google.com/apis/feedburner/awareness_api.html

and you mentioned also “…replace feedburner-id with your feedburner username…”

i need to me more patience and read more carefully :)
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