Comments on: Finding RSS Subscriber Counts Through Apache Logs

By: Ken Varnum

Ken Varnum — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:01:39 +0000

I built a tool that does something similar — except that it also counts the number of times web browsers request the RSS feeds and estimates a few other mechanisms. Try out http://www.rss4lib.com/feedstats/yourstats.pl . (You need to have a copy of your server’s log file. And for now, the tool only handles Apache logs, but that will soon change.)

By: Barbara Weibel

Barbara Weibel — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:19:40 +0000

Terrific post. Do you have a particular web log analyzer that you like to use, one that will specifically allow this type of search? Thanks for any help you can provide.

By: Leonardo Fontenelle

Leonardo Fontenelle — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 10:36:13 +0000

@Barbara: I don’t have shell access either. From time to time, I download the log file and run the script on my own machine.

By: Binny V A

Binny V A — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 04:59:10 +0000

@Leonardo
Great script!

A better way to do this is FeedBurner. But if you are using the feedburner service, you will not be able to do get the data from the server log.

By: Bárbara

Bárbara — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:30:48 +0000

How i could do this if don’t have shell access to my domain?

By: The Geek

The Geek — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 05:57:11 +0000

That’s an awesome script… really nice tool.

By: Leonardo Fontenelle

Leonardo Fontenelle — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 04:36:42 +0000

Nice tip! I found a command line to print nicely how many users are subscribing with Google Reader (in Portuguese). I wrote a more generic script: awk ‘/subscriber/ {print $12,$14,$7}’ my_log | \ sort -nr | uniq | \ cut -c 2- | tr ‘ ‘ ‘\t’