Python Feedburner Awareness API Script
I spent some time trying to find a snippet of example code that used Feedburner’s Awareness API with Python but I Google wasn’t much help. So I put one together for you.
One thing that I didn’t realize about feedburner stats is that if the feed publicly displays a chicklet on the site (like mine) then the RSS data is available without authentication. Therefore it’s possible to display a history of other sites RSS statistics on your own. Maybe you can think of a way to use that data.
By adding a dates argument to the REST URL you can request historical data from the API but as the script is written it will just print out the current statistics.
Example Usage:
$ python feedburnerPrint.py HalotisBlog : 2009-08-11 - 32 - 87 - 217
Here’s the Python source code:
#!/usr/bin/env python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- # (C) 2009 HalOtis Marketing # written by Matt Warren # http://halotis.com/ import urllib2 try: from xml.etree import ElementTree except ImportError: from elementtree import ElementTree #add a dates=YYYY-MM-DD,YYYY-MM-DD argument to the url to get all data in a date range url_prefix = 'https://feedburner.google.com/api/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=' URIs = ['HalotisBlog',] def print_feedburner(content): tree = ElementTree.fromstring(content) for feed in tree.findall('feed'): print feed.get('uri'), ':' for entry in feed.findall('entry'): print entry.get('date'), '-', entry.get('reach'), '-', entry.get('circulation'), '-', entry.get('hits') if __name__=='__main__': for uri in URIs: content = urllib2.urlopen(url_prefix + uri).read() print_feedburner(content)
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thanks for the code!
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