Who is subscribing?

March 21, 2005 12:55 AM

Bloglines lets you see who is publicly subscribing to your RSS feed. But can you also find out who your current subscribers are with Feedster, MyYahoo, MyMSN and Newsgator?
posted by timyang to computers & internet (4 comments total)

I don't think any of them reveal that information, so I think you're out of luck.
posted by waxpancake at 1:22 AM on March 21, 2005

Check your server logs. That's what they are there for. You can process them with something like AWStats or similar.
posted by furtive at 8:00 AM on March 21, 2005

your server logs only tell you what sever is requesting information, not how many people are using that server. there could be thousands of people subscribed via an aggregator site, and you'll only see one request. bloglines (i think) started the wonderful practice of including subscriber counts in the HTTP request, but that's not yet a standard practice.
posted by scottreynen at 10:02 AM on March 21, 2005

Ah scottreynen you've just answered a question that has been bothering me for quite a while. I couldn't figure out how Bloglines was not run out of business by hammering feeds (for Slashdot, which lets you hit only a certain amount of times a day).

Didn't realize they'd hit it once and use that hit for everyone. Makes perfect sense.

Cheers!
posted by furtive at 11:49 AM on March 21, 2005