Bird Feeder Pepper
By Shaun Inman
Your RSS and Atom feeds attract all kinds of colorful wildlife, Bird Feeder is a window onto that activity. It highlights subscription trends across multiple Feeds and clicks on individual Seeds. What’s a seed? That’s bird-ese for an article or link within a feed. Poo-tee-weet?
Release Notes
Latest version- Version 2.05
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- Fixed bug when saving non-standard Feeder Locations
- Added some additional readers
- Version 2.04
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- Seeds now respect the “Ignore my visits” preference
- Added
MintReferredByFeedsession cookie (and thereferred_by_feedcolumn) for use by other Pepper and external systems (eg. can be used to hide ads on your site from subscribers)
It has come to my attention that giving your feed a
BIRDFEEDname with an apostrophe can cause Bird Feeder to behave erratically (its filters not functioning as expected and being unable to delete the feed with the apostrophe) and could potentially result in Mint data loss or corruption. I am looking into the issue. In the meantime don’t assign a feed name containing an apostrophe. - Version 2.03
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You may see an increase in subscribers for the first 24 hours after updating. This is normal and part of the update. Subscriber counts will be accurate thereafter.
- Updated ingredients of the
reader_checksumagain (to prevent a request forwww.domain.com/feed/from overwriting the subscriber counts from a separate request for the otherwise identicaldomain.com/feed/) - Added FeedBlitz, Google Desktop, Megite and Newshutch to recognized reader/bots (previously included under “Unknown”)
- Updated ingredients of the
- Version 2.02
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- Added the
REQUEST_URIto the ingredients of thereader_checksum(to prevent a request for/feed/index.phpfrom overwriting the subscriber counts from a separate request for the otherwise identical/feed/) - Thanks for the suggestion Ronald.
- Added the
- Version 2.01
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- Added Google Reader to the list of recognized Feed Readers
- Updated the Feeder to provide configuration feedback (good or bad to avoid “blank page” confusion)
- Version 2.0
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- Initial release
- Other Downloads by Shaun Inman
- Backup/Restore Pepper
- Debugger Pepper
- Default Pepper
- Directories Pepper
- Doorbell Pepper
- iPhone Pepper
- Junior Mint Widget
- Leaves
- Local Searches Pepper
- Mint
- Mint Button
- Outbound Pepper
- Real Estate Pepper
- Refresh Pepper
- Secret Crush Pepper
- Stale Mint Widget
- User Agent 007 Pepper
- Visits Diff Pepper
- Window Width Pepper
Junior Mint
Version 2.01A fresh fix of hourly, daily, or all visits is only an F12 away. (Requires Apple's Mac OS X Dashboard)