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If you want to change the traditional feedburner  reader statistic image use the below program in your widgets which will fetch the readers feedburner .Everyone has one: Digg, Feedburner, Pownce, Flickr, Google Maps, etc. FeedBurner provides a sweet “Awareness API” that allows you to pull statistics from your FeedBurner account. Here’s how you do it using PHP cURL.

//open connection  

$ch = curl_init();  

//set the url, number of POST vars, POST data  

curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,‘http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?id=#######’);  

curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);    

curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,$timeout);  

     //execute post  

     $content = curl_exec($ch);  

     $subscribers = get_match(‘/circulation=”(.*)”/isU’,$content);  

echo ‘Subscribers:  ’.$subscribers;  

      //close connection  

curl_close($ch);  

/* helper: does the regex */  

function get_match($regex,$content)  

{  

          preg_match($regex,$content,$matches);  

    return $matches[1];  

}  

 

It’s that easy. What makes this even better is that I hate FeedBurner’s “badge” and I can manipulate the result of the above code any way I want.  To learn more about FeedBurner’s Awareness API and the information you can pull about your feed view the below url http://code.google.com/apis/feedburner/awareness_api.html