While we already know how to create script for getting number of followers from twitter – now it’s the best time for getting number of subscribers from feedburner. Everything will be done in python (django).

What is Feedburner? It’s a great tool for managing RSS feeds.

Why I may want to have number of subscribers? Because we may want to show that number on our website.

We will use Feedburner’s API. What you should read is: Past Basic Feed Awareness Data

I will use XMLObject class to parse XMLs, because I simply like it.

Ok, let’s code…

Open your *.py file (it could be main/views.py) and add there one new method:

def getFeedburner(request):
    from datetime import datetime as datetime2now
	today = datetime2now.now().date()
	actTime = datetime2now.now().timetz()
	actTime = str(actTime)
	actTime = actTime[:8]
	oneDay = datetime.timedelta(days=1)
	twoDays = datetime.timedelta(days=2)
	yesterday = today - oneDay
	twodaysago = today - twoDays

	from develway.main.xmlobject import XMLFile

	url = 'https://feedburner.google.com/api/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=URI_OF_MY_WEBSITE&dates=' + str(twodaysago) + ',' + str(yesterday)

	f = urllib.urlopen(url)
	xml = f.read()

	xml = XMLFile(raw=xml)
	entries = xml.root.feed.entry

	circulation_yesterday = None
	circulation_twodaysago = None
	for each_entry in entries:
		if each_entry._get('date') == str(yesterday):
			circulation_yesterday = each_entry._get('circulation')
		elif each_entry._get('date') == str(twodaysago):
			circulation_twodaysago = each_entry._get('circulation')

	if circulation_yesterday:
		value = circulation_yesterday
	elif circulation_twodaysago:
		value = circulation_twodaysago

	return HttpResponse(str(value))

That’s all. Now add new view to your urls.py:

    (...)
    (r'^get-feedburner/$', 'YOUR_PROJECT.main.views.getFeedburner'),

and test it by going to the URL: http://your_domain/get-feedburner/

Everything should work fine.

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