Showing off your FeedBurner subscribers

27 October, 2008 Joost de Valk 59 comments, leave your own!

smashing-subscribers.pngQuite a few websites have started to show of their FeedBurner subscriber count with something else than a widget. To do that, you have to be able to grab the number of subscribers through the FeedBurner API.

Now I bet you want to know how! It's bloody easy in WordPress, just do this:

$fb = get_option("feedburnersubscribecount");
if ($fb['lastcheck'] < ( mktime() - 600 ) ) {
	$snoopy = new Snoopy;
	$result = $snoopy->fetch("http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=feedburnerid");
	if ($result) {
		preg_match('/circulation=\"([0-9]+)\"/',$snoopy->results, $matches);
		if ($matches[1] != 0)
			$fb['count'] = $matches[1];
		$fb['lastcheck'] = mktime();
		update_option("feedburnersubscribecount",$fb);
	}
}
echo ''.$fb['count'].' Subscribers can\'t be wrong! Subscribe by <a href="http://yoast.com/email-blog-updates/">email</a> or to the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/joostdevalk">RSS feed</a> now!';

Copy, paste, replace feedburnerid with your own FeedBurner ID, and you're done!

Update: updated the code to include caching, as you might overload the FeedBurner API otherwise.

Update 2: if you get an error saying it can't find the class Snoopy, add this above the code:

require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-includes/class-snoopy.php');

If this doesn't work for you, and you're on FeedBurners new feedproxy.google.com servers, try this solution.

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42 Responses to “Showing off your FeedBurner subscribers”

  1. By John Lessnau Mon, October 27th, 2008 at 15:22

    How many feedburner subs should one have before you start showing the number to the world. 50? 100? 1000?

  2. By rohin Mon, October 27th, 2008 at 17:41

    slick advice , this is definatly a tool to use while designing a header.

    Thanks man !

  3. By Lyndi Mon, October 27th, 2008 at 17:59

    Nifty little piece of advice. One does however need a few more subscribers than I have before you to show off the number of subscribers :-(

  4. By Julius Kuhn-Regnier Mon, October 27th, 2008 at 18:31

    nice advice! i've recently asked myself how you could grab the feed circulation. now i know it thanks ;)

  5. By Andrew Mason Mon, October 27th, 2008 at 19:24

    My WP theme uses the feedcount plugin to display the Feedburner readers. Check it out at http://www.didigetthingsdone.com.

    I think it looks much better than the standard Feedburner widgets.

  6. By Anthony Shapley Mon, October 27th, 2008 at 19:51

    Damn Joost your on fire with all these awesome tips :)

  7. By Joost de Valk Mon, October 27th, 2008 at 20:26

    Just updated the code to include caching, as you might otherwise overload the FeedBurner API :)

  8. By Rarst Mon, October 27th, 2008 at 20:30

    I am using FeedCount plugin as well. My only problem is FeedBurner reporting zeroes often, I wish it displayed last valid value instead of that.

  9. By Joost de Valk Mon, October 27th, 2008 at 20:33

    @Rarst: I'll have a look at feedcount, I bet you can code that in.

  10. By Rarst Mon, October 27th, 2008 at 20:38

    @Joost de Valk

    Thanks! You might code this into your snippet it gets bigger with each page reload it seems. :) Quite a few people I know are having problems with zeroes from FeedBurner. :( I thought it was fixed some time ago but now it started again.

  11. By Joost de Valk Mon, October 27th, 2008 at 20:41

    @Rarst: done, coding it into the snippet was easy, just had to add the line "if ($matches[1] != 0)".

  12. By Rarst Mon, October 27th, 2008 at 20:54

    @Joost de Valk

    Thanks again! I've implemented your snippet at my blog. After embarassing moment of forgetting to change feed id and suddenly displaying 4k subscribers for few seconds. :) I've also increased update interval, FeedBurner updates once per day, no sense in bugging it often.

  13. By Hebdo Mon, October 27th, 2008 at 20:57

    "feedburnerid" is joostdevalk in your code

  14. By Joost de Valk Mon, October 27th, 2008 at 21:01

    @Hebdo: thx, fixed that, that's what you get for copy / pasting your own code ;)

  15. By Guillermo Mon, October 27th, 2008 at 21:04

    hey Joost... Does this work for the ones that jumped to the Google version of Feedburner?

  16. By Joost de Valk Mon, October 27th, 2008 at 21:06

    Not yet, I'll have a look at that though, stay tuned for updates!

  17. By sunipeyk Mon, October 27th, 2008 at 21:18

    sorry but i cant run the code :( , it says "cant find the snoopy class"

  18. By Joost de Valk Mon, October 27th, 2008 at 21:21

    @sunipeyk: updated the post, add that require I added in the update.

  19. By sunipeyk Mon, October 27th, 2008 at 21:36

    Thank you for quick reply :)
    it solves the error ... but no number show up :(
    is it working with feedproxy.google.com uri or not?

  20. By Joost de Valk Mon, October 27th, 2008 at 21:37

    Not yet, let me look at that now!

  21. By Joost de Valk Mon, October 27th, 2008 at 21:43

    If anyone who use feedproxy would please try to replace the uri=feedburnerid with id= and then the number you can see in the URL of the backend of feedburner when editing your feed. If this works, please comment with an example edit link in feedburner so I can add how that works to the post!

  22. By Navjot Singh Tue, October 28th, 2008 at 15:48

    I tried your method of using id= but still the code does not work with Feedproxy as of now. Thanks for trying still.

  23. By Tertius Wed, October 29th, 2008 at 17:24

    Loving the guy on the toilet. Wish I could read my feeds on the toilet. Maybe get a kindle.

    I'll probably get something like this online when I have some numbers to show. Still working on it!

  24. By Priyan Thu, October 30th, 2008 at 08:43

    Thanks for your nice tip. Btw, could you tell me how could i do this on the New Google Feedburner ?? Bcos i have transfered all of my feeds to the New Google Feedburner at http://feedburner.google.com

    Waiting for your guide !

  25. By TheAnand Sat, November 1st, 2008 at 06:58

    Thanks for looking into the google feedburner thingy. I gave it a shot here:

    http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=fbf1vnvih05nk5modg4vepgnb4

    but it does not still work. There is no official help on this either.

  26. By Richard Sun, November 2nd, 2008 at 01:04

    i added it to my blog and i think it works a treat!!

  27. By Colin Sun, November 2nd, 2008 at 15:00

    Hi, thanks for the tutorial, but I wonder where shall I put the code to? shall i put it at where i want to display the feed count? i tried to put the code inside Dreamweaver before uploading to my site but Dreamweaver recognizes it as texts instead of codes... sorry i have no experience to coding... please help me out. Thanks a lot! :D

  28. By Hotels Espagne Wed, November 5th, 2008 at 00:04

    I've tried them all; hopefully this piece of code will work. I'll let you know anyway; thanks for sharing.

  29. By Raju Thu, November 6th, 2008 at 08:36

    Nice tip, but there seems to be a problem with the display of subscribers count.
    Check out my site http://www.techpp.com. I am not able to see the subscriber count at all. can't think what have I missed?

  30. By Webmaster Blog Thu, November 6th, 2008 at 16:50

    There is a problem with feedburner today also. The subscribers count is showing 0 :(

  31. By aukseo Sun, November 9th, 2008 at 21:11

    Yup, it's not been working today, although it might be due to me have no subscribers??

  32. By ridhoyp Mon, November 10th, 2008 at 23:58

    hmm.. how bout joomla. have your tried it :) pliz

  33. By Thinkpad t60 battery Tue, November 11th, 2008 at 02:50

    Nice code. Thanks for sharing......
    Have a try to add my feedburner into my blog Thinkpad T60. The reason that code cant work must be the feedburner showing problem. You can see all the posts while click the RSS links.

  34. By Raju Thu, November 13th, 2008 at 15:46

    I am still waiting for some help. requoting again -
    'Nice tip, but there seems to be a problem with the display of subscribers count.
    Check out my site http://www.techpp.com. I am not able to see the subscriber count at all. can't think what have I missed?"

  35. By Sachin Tendulkar Fri, November 14th, 2008 at 16:21

    Thanks a lot for the info.

    I have compiled some of the methods, including yours, to do this here,
    http://www.agentwordpress.com/five-ways-to-show-your-total-feedburner-subscriber-count

    Check it out and please provide me your valuable feedback.

  36. By Sajid Iqbal Mon, November 17th, 2008 at 12:41

    Very helpful. Plugins are real headaches for such minor tasks. More plugin=More page loading time.

  37. By Travel blog Tue, November 18th, 2008 at 18:44

    I've tried them all, and for the moment I've NOT been able to show something else that the official widget. If your piece of code works, you'll be my new god!

    Cheers,

    Syl

  38. By John Wed, November 19th, 2008 at 10:39

    Very helpful Plugin but it doesn't work on my website :-(
    http://www.makemoneykingdom.com . Anyone with good knowledge might probably be able to help me out. I wanna put this on my website so badly. Pls help, I request
    Thanks

  39. By karthik Fri, March 13th, 2009 at 07:56

    Thanx dude, I was also thinking abt it and got solution for adding the number of subscribers. Let me try it with my site. Great help. Thanx again.

  40. By Roberto Mon, April 27th, 2009 at 08:14

    Very useful I'm going to try it...

    Thanks a lot.

    Roberto

  41. By Gene Mon, July 13th, 2009 at 08:06

    Where can I find the "feedburnerid" for each of my feedburner blogs?
    Thanks,
    Gene

  42. By sudhi Sat, September 12th, 2009 at 20:52

    nice. will definitely give it a try.

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  1. By rilwis (Tuan Anh) Tue, February 3rd, 2009 at 00:32

    Cách hiện số lượng người theo dõi qua FeedBurner trên web: http://tinyurl.com/6nlefu

  2. By emmamba (Emmanuel Mba) Thu, March 12th, 2009 at 22:06

    http://tinyurl.com/6nlefu

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