check_feedburner.py

check_feedburner.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

# Usage: ./check_feedburner.py MyFeedName

import re, sys, urllib, fileinput
from xml.dom import minidom

AWARENESS_API_URL = 'https://feedburner.google.com/api/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=%s'
# If you want to replace the feedburner count in a given file, define it here
FEED_COUNT_FILE = '/path/to/your/file.php'
# HTML to replace with feed count
COUNT_HTML_REGEX = r'REPLACEME'
COUNT_REPLACE_STRING = r'REPLACEME%s'
    
def get_circulation(feed_uri):
    dom = minidom.parse(urllib.urlopen(AWARENESS_API_URL % feed_uri))
    count = dom.getElementsByTagName('entry')[0].getAttribute('circulation')
    if count == '' or count == '0':
    	print 'Error getting feed count'
    	sys.exit(1)
    return count
    
def replace_feedburner_count(count):
    '''Replaces feedburner count in FEED_COUNT_FILE'''
    try:
        for line in fileinput.input(FEED_COUNT_FILE, inplace=1):
    	    # Comma at the end of the string prevents explicitly writing a newline
            print re.sub(COUNT_HTML_REGEX, COUNT_REPLACE_STRING % count, line, 1),
    except OSError, ose:
    	print 'File "%s" not found' % FEED_COUNT_FILE

if __name__ == '__main__':
    # First arg is URI
    feed_count = get_circulation(sys.argv[1])
    print feed_count
    if FEED_COUNT_FILE:
        replace_feedburner_count(feed_count)