This PHP CURL example uses cookies, POST, and SSL options to login to Google Reader and fetch the number of subscribers for a feed.
This PHP CURL example uses cookies, POST, and SSL options to login to Google Reader and fetch the number of subscribers for a feed.
Note: If you don't have a Google Reader account you need to get one for this script to function.
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$g=preg_replace($s, '', $askapache_curl_google_result);
$g=preg_match('@href="([^"]*?)"@si',$g,$m);
$ch = curl_init($m[1]);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $google_cookie);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $google_cookie);
$askapache_curl_google_result = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$g=preg_match('@href="([^"]*?)"@si',$askapache_curl_google_result,$j);
$ch = curl_init("http://www.google.com/reader/directory/search?q=$feedurl");
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $google_cookie);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $google_cookie);
$askapache_curl_google_result = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$y=preg_match('@class="feed-result-stats">([^<]*?)@si',$askapache_curl_google_result,$s);
// output results
header("Content-type: text/plain");
echo "(".$s[1].") Subscribers for feed: ".urldecode($feedurl);
// delete cookie file
unlink($google_cookie);
exit 0;
exit;
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Google Reader reports subscriber counts when we crawl feeds (within the "
User-Agent:" header in HTTP). Currently, these counts include users of both Google Reader and iGoogle, and over time will include subscriptions from other Google properties.The "
User-Agent:" header of our crawler includes the name of our crawler ("FeedFetcher-Google") along with its associated URL, the subscriber count, and a unique 64-bit feed identifier ("feed-id"). You might see multiple requests for the same feed with distinct "feed-id" values. This happens if the same feed is referenced through multiple URLs (for example, because of redirects). In that case, you'll need to sum up the subscribers to a feed that have distinct "feed-id" values to determine the total number of Google subscribers to the feed.Below is an example of the contents of the "
User-Agent:" header:
User-Agent: Feedfetcher-Google; (+http://www.google.com/feedfetcher.html; 4 subscribers; feed-id=1794595805790851116)
