Important: The Google Feedburner APIs have been officially deprecated as of May 26, 2011 will be shut down on October 20, 2012.
FeedBurner offers developers an established (and growing!) library of web services for interacting with our feed management and awareness-generating capabilities. Using the features this library provides, anyone with a Google account enabled for the FeedBurner service may perform some of the most common actions available on our service programmatically. Outside applications and content management services, including popular blogging platforms, are already making use of this application programming interface (API) to help publishers promote feed stats in new and interesting ways.
FeedBurner offers different APIs for different purposes. Depending on what you want to accomplish, you use one or more of our APIs to interact with FeedBurner feeds, services and stored analytics.
Accessing FeedBurner Feed Analytics
The Awareness API (AwAPI) gives you access to traffic statistics for FeedBurner feeds in your own account or any other feed that has explicitly permitted public access via this API. It's a great way to compare and contrast performance and popularity for entire feeds as well as individual content items within feeds. AwAPI uses the REST protocol to exchange information in a simple XML format.
Building new FeedFlare Links
The FeedFlare API (FfAPI) allows you to extend the usefulness and reach of syndicated content by integrating third party web services as links users can click when viewing content items in the feed or on the originating site. This open API may be used by anyone to build as many Flare units as their creativity inspires.
FeedBurner web services use the REST protocol to receive requests and return data over HTTP. Data is exchanged as plain text XML which can be repurposed, transformed, and displayed by applications that you build.
Using XML means testing and exploring our APIs can be as simple as composing an API-provided URL and then requesting it with a web browser.
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FeedBurner returns a complete XML document right in your browser window (you may have to view source to see the output, depending on your browser). In this document is FeedBurner's most recent circulation statistic for Official Google Blog, our offical company weblog. Because this data is returned as XML, a wide variety of software languages and platforms can parse its content.
The FeedFlare API (FfAPI) allows you to extend the usefulness and reach of your syndicated content by integrating third party web services and offering them as linked actions users can take when viewing feed content, wherever it is displayed. This open API may be used by anyone to build as many Flare units as their creativity inspires.
The Awareness API (AwAPI) gives you access to traffic statistics for FeedBurner feeds in your own account or any other feed that has explicitly permitted public access via this API. It's a great way to compare and contrast performance and popularity for feeds and, if you have enabled item-level tracking of clicks, views and downloads, content item popularity. Furthermore, AwAPI allows public access to any feed's traffic statistics at FeedBurner (assuming that feed's owner has activated AwAPI access for that feed).
FeedBurner APIs are provided solely for a publisher's own non-commercial use and are not supported via email, phone, or any other method. At any given time without notice or explanation Google may change its algorithms for generating analytical data.
