Mint Forum

I have no idea when this happened, but FeedFetcher now reports the exact number of subscribers in Google Reader and Personalized Homepage: google.com/help/reader/publishers.html#faq

On a tangent from what was discussed elsewhere haveamint.com/forum/pepper_development/ … rd_feeder, is there a list of what services are counted in this manner? I know Bloglines, Google Reader/Personalized Homepage, and FeedBurner report the numbers, but is there a list of who reports what available?

I’ve spent a while trying to hunt down malicious crawlers over the years, so I’d also like to have a little more detail (inside the Bird Feeder pane or even in SQL) to figure out who to block.

Google just emailed me about subscriber counts being included. BirdFeeder should be collecting this data (although it won’t recognize Google Reader as an independent reader from FeedFetcher without an update).

You can check the preg_match() inside the parseUserAgent() method of the Bird Feeder class for a list of recognized readers.