Feedburner Hack: View Anyone's Subscriber Count

Posted by Miles Evans

Well not anyone's, but anyone who is using Feedburner to track and manage their feed. I'm not sure how well known this exploit is but I just came across it and will post it here for posterity. It's simple really...

If someone using Feedburner is hiding their subscriber count you can often grab it by using a url formed like so (notice the /~fc):

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~fc/seomoz

Since most sites want to use their websites name with Feedburner (duh), you should be able to figure out what to put after the ~fc directory. So while their might be some guess work involved, any eager beaver should be able to stumble upon the right site name.

That's one to add to the old covert spy tools am I right?

Posted May 08, 2007 at 02:57 AM | Permalink | Trackback URL | Del.icio.us | DIGG!