I’ve just released a new WordPress plugin: FeedBurnerCount. It gets the job of retrieving feed readers from the FeedBurner API done efficiently.
Lately it seems the API is up and down all the time, many times providing invalid data, and recently moved to a new URI. The one plugin that solves this same task hasn’t been updated in months, and it’s not ready for an inconsistent API, which results in a N/A count all the time.
FeedBurnerCount can maintain your feed count even if the Awareness API is not working (or you can specify a custom message for those situations), and calculate the average readers count in a period of time. It also sniffs your feedburner details (if the FeedBurner plugin installed) for an impossibly easier setup.
Head to the the plugin page for more details.
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Fantastic plugin, worked first time, I’d thoroughly recommend using this to replace the FeedBurner chicklets (uggh). Recommended! :-)
Just curious, was this plugin made for the old feedburner or the new ‘google feedbuner’ (feedburner.google.com)?
I really like your site!
@SethStevenson
Retract that. Just figured it out by checking the source. Thanks for the plugin!
Yup, it works with the updated API, via HTTPS directly so it avoids the redirect.
Just a thought – because the FeedBurner API seems to return a (faulty) subscriber count of 0 for long periods at a time, could I suggest that you disregard all returned feedcounts of 0?
I know it’s an API bug, but what else can you do? The whole point of the plugin was to work around that kind of nonsense, right? :-)
That’s what the plugin does when the count is 0 (if ‘keep the last result’ is used).
That’s a useful plugin – I installed it only my blog a few hours ago. I’ve been looking for a replacement to Mapelli’s plugin for some time now, found your link via comments there.
I’ll write about FeedburnerCount, but few actually know about this plugin. I hope you’ll promote this agressively, the blogosphere needs it desperately.
The download link appears to be broken.
I was able to download from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/feedburnercount/ however.
Thanks for letting me know. It’s been fixed. Thanks Stacy
Thank you! This plugin works perfectly and is exactly what I needed.
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