Mint Feedburner Stats Pepper
September 7th, 2005
Mint is great. It is simple, extendable and very good looking. I decided to give extending it a shot and learn a bit more about the pepper aspects of Mint. I am not personally a fan of peppermint, but I couldn’t resist making some kind of pepper for Mint (haha I’m so funny). I use Feedburner for the RSS feed on this site so I had to check stats in two different locations. I decided the handiest thing for me would be a Feedburner Stats pepper. It isn’t anthing special, but Feedburner Stats pepper allows you to view your circulation and hits for the past seven days. On a side note, if you don’t currently use Feedburner and you do use Wordpress, I would recommend installing Steve’s Wordpress Feedburner Plugin to direct all your Wordpress feed traffic to your feedburner account.
Screenshots of the Panes
Limitations and Requirements
- Item stats are only available if you have a Feedburner Pro Account.
Installation
- Download the files, unzip, and copy the
addictedtonewfolder into your/mint/pepperfolder. The total path for the pepper should be/mint/pepper/addictedtonew/feedburnerstats - Login to your Mint installation and in the Preferences click “Install” under
Pepper. - Click the Feedburner Stats Pepper “Install” button. Click “Okay.”
- Now click on the Feedburner Stats preferences under Pepper in the preferences pane.
- In the box, type your feedburner uri (ie:johnnunemaker or comma seperate multiple feeds)
- Click “Done.”
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Change Log
- v3.02 (2/28/2006): return array was added to onRecord (via Shaun Inman)
- v3.01 (11/23/2005): Updated compatibility to Mint 1.2+
- v3.0 (10/20/2005): Added support for multiple feedburner uri’s.
- v2.0 (9/12/2005): Added in Item Stats (hits and clicks) for previous day.This only works if you have a TotalStats Pro account.
- v1.2 (9/9/2005): One week is no longer the only option. You can now set the number of days you would like to see your feedburner stats and averages for.
- v1.1.1 (9/8/2005): This now works with or without CURL just like Mint
- v1.1 (9/8/2005): This has been updated to also show average circulation and hits for the past week. Also, I fixed the number of days. The original release was only showing six days instead of seven.
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Feedburner Stats Pepper
John Nunemaker has released his Feedburner Stats Pepper, which lets you track the last seven days worth of Feedburner activity from within Mint.
It currently requires cURL, but should work on most installations  go and give it a try!
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Thanks man, this is exactly what I needed.
Great plugin! Thanks!
Great plugin!
I ran into a snag, though — I did a new install of Mint 1.05 today, and shortly thereafter the Feedburner Pepper.
Everything looked like it was fine, but a few hours later I checked and Mint had started logging blanks to mint_visit — just id numbers and times, the rest of the fields blank (or 0).
After someone pointed out similar problems with the xxx_strong pepper, I unstalled the Feedburner pepper and Mint went back to logging properly…
Obviously there’s a lot of fresh code everywhere in this, so no telling where the problem is, but I did want to give you a head’s up — and I’m looking forward to reinstalling this soon!
Thanks!
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@Chuck - This pepper could not have directly caused the stat tracking error as it does nothing onRecord. All the feedburner pepper does is hit the feedburner api and display the stats. It only interacts with mint during the install, preference setting, and uninstall. Try reinstalling it and let me know what happens.
Thanks John;
I was pretty sure the problem wasn’t with the FeedBurner pepper, since a lot of others are reporting the same issue, some with other pepper (there’s a lengthy thread in the Mint forum about it with XXX_Strong), and some that it’s unclear whether they had installed any 3rd party pepper or not.
I think it’s far more likely that installing it just exposed a bug in Mint itself — the only reason I even saw a correlation was that uninstalling it made the problem go away; I just wanted to be sure to keep you in the loop.
I think I’ll wait until Shaun puts out another release or two, and then give it another go; it’s a very slick pepper, and having my Feedburner info at my fingertips is one of the reasons I jumped on Mint in the first place.
Thanks!
- Chuck
@Chuck - Excellent response. That is what I was trying to say. Hope all goes well. I am using it with Mint 1.05 right now (just so you know it can work).
Frickin brilliant! Thank you!
Just what a stat junkie needs. Thanks for the plugin!
Weird — I got it installed, but it’s still zeroes across the board while I can see the stat info on my feedburner page.
Any advice?
I’m using WordPress and followed the instructions to a T.
@Pauly D - Did you just setup your feedburner account? The Feedburner awareness api does not allow access to current statistics. It only shows yesterdays and older. If you just signed up today, then it will start to show stats tomorrow.
If you have had it setup for more than a day or two it must be something else. If this is the case, let me know what you feedburner api is and I will help you get it working.
Aaaah! I just set it up today.
I will be more patient in the future. Thanks John.
Love the pepper! Keep ‘em comin.
Great work, John! This is awesome.
Just to add a little detail to comment #10… we don’t allow access to current statistics in the API for the same reason we don’t allow it (much) in the application itself: today’s numbers are a running tally of feed usage “so far,” and what you really want is the most recent stable number. And that’s yesterday’s.
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John Nunemaker decided ‘two mints in one’ is a better way to get complete, fresh traffic stats; his FeedBurner Stats ‘pepper’ for the increasingly popular Mint website statistics service allows you to combine views of web and FeedBurner feed stats….
The plugin is really nice! It actually convinced me to open my wallet and purchase Mint just to try this out. Loving it!
really really nice. any chance of a future release allowing for multiple feeds?
@Gabriel - Yes, there is a good chance. I have already thought through how to do it. It is just a matter of time.
John, I installed this pepper but I have run into problems with it. After the install I click on ‘View Mint’ the page is then blank? I notice loads of other people have got this to work so I was wondering if this is something to do with my install (Mint 1.1, UserAgent007 v002). Do you have any idea what causes this?
Thanks
@Johnny K - The problem is not with the pepper, but rather it seems to be with the way Mint uses peppers. This pepper doesn’t even touch anything with mint but the preferences. Are you having problems with any other peppers? What is your server setup? Did it work on previous Mint versions for you? I am using Mint 1.1 and it is working fine for me.
John, the only other pepper i’ve installed is UserAgent007, and 1.1 is the only version of Mint I’ve tried. Web server is Apache-1.3.27 and PHP-4.3.10.
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Somehow I always forget about looking at my Feedburner stats. This solves it!
I’m not sure how to present the data, but it’d be great if this supported multiple feeds.
Thanks for putting this together, RSS stats were the only missing part of mint for me and with this plugin I’m moving everything to feedburner.
Due to the way my users are currently subscribed to RSS, I need to set up a feed for the site and a feed for the most popular category. This means that my single site actually has 2 feedburner feeds. It would be great if I could monitor both feeds. To keep implementation simple, I’d be happy with a separate pane per feed. It would almost be like two instances of the feedburner pepper (I could probably even hack that together on my own by renaming a copy of your pepper, I might try that).
Pete
I,too, would be interested in being able to handle multiple feeds. I took a look at the code and I’m not optimistic that I could just rename all the files and functions in a copy of this pepper and have it load as a second instance for another feed.
Multiple feeds–awesome!
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I would SO donate if this could handle non-feedburner feeds.
Thanks for the update for Mint 1.2 - works great! Much appreciated :-)
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Hey John, I’m the guy from the Mint forums who wants the plugin to display as it used to when there is only one feed. Well, I have the solution for you. Just add if (count($uris) > 1) in front of the code on line 165 and 203. I’ve done it on my plugin, but it would be great to see this in future versions. Thanks!
Hey John — Thanks for a great pepper. One problem, though.
I recently upgraded to Mint 1.2 and reinstalled the Feedburner stats pepper. Mint then stopped registering anything other than hits — no referrers, no browser stats, etc.
I searched the forum and found someone else had the same problem, as described here. His solution was uninstalling Feedburner Stats — it worked for him.
So I uninstalled Feedburner Stats and, presto! Everything went back to working as normal.
Any idea what the issue is? Is there a new problem with 1.2? Thanks.
I have no comments with feedburner stats they are nice. But have you tried creating and tracking your feeds from http://www.rapidfeeds.com If you haven’t you should surely give it a try, and yah rapidfeeds is free too.
@Josh - What version of PHP do you have on the server you have mint installed on? Shaun suppresses errors. I’m betting that you have a version of PHP that I have not tested with and an error is being thrown.
It’s PHP 5.0.4. I host on Textdrive.
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My feed name is too long and the url headline break bring me so a horizontal scolling by viewing the stats.
Can you help me?
@Joerg - Just use einfachpersoenlich as your feedburner uri. You don’t need the entire address.
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hey John,
Thanks for this pepper, but I have to mention that I am finding that it prevents other aspects of Mint from working; for example, Pages and User Agent 007. I uninstall Feedburner Stats and these things start working again, I re-install Feedburner Stats and they stop working.
I am using the latest version of Mint (1.26) and your pepper (3.01). Is there anything in particular I should look at to provide you with more info? I am hosted on Textdrive as well.
@James - Most likely there is some kind of error with my code and your version of php. What version of php are you using?
John, I am using PHP 5.04, according to the command line interface.
@James - Reinstall Feedburner Pepper and go to http://www.thenewsbeforethenews.com/mint/?errors. Mint suppresses php errors, but adding ?errors will change the error reporting to E_ALL and will show if the feedburner pepper is causing any major errors.
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John, I’ve just emailed you an updated Feedburner Pepper. After dealing with far too many related support requests I’ve fixed the issue myself. Please post the updated files at your earliest convenience. Thanks
@Shaun - Updated.
[...] The Feedburner Stats pepper has been updated. [...]
[...] Oh, and to bring this topic back around to the opening statement… there’s even a Mint Pepper (plugin) that allows you to keep tabs on your FeedBurner feed. [...]
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[...] The next step is tracking your visitors, seeing where they came from, what they saw, and how they left. You will be able to easily assess what content your readers appreciate the most and concentrate on that aspect of your blog. Most webhosts include some type of stats monitoring applications such as the Urchin suite. However, I use Mr. Inman’s Mint religiously. The best part of Mint is an open API that lets developers create plugins called Peppers that dramatically extend functionality. I had previously posted an article about the top Peppers I use. It is definitely worth a look if you want to get a better idea of how great Mint can make your life. There is also a Mint Pepper for tracking your FeedBurner stats. [...]
Awesome - Now I can check all my traffic stats in one place :) I was getting tired of going to the Feedburner site!
Thank’s a lot for the pepper. I enjoyed it very much until, one day, it suddenly stopped working. It only displays the adress of my feed now (http://feeds.feedburner.com/Japhyat). I’ve uninstalled and installed the newest version, but it still doesn’t work.
The feed itself is working.
Any idea?
Are you sure you have the awareness api activated?
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Just wondering if this pepper is compatible with Mint 2.0.2? Or if you will be releasing a Mint 2 compatible one?
@Phil - I’m using it on two Mint2 sites with no problems.
When will you start implementing smexy Mint 2 graphical features?
Just putting the word out about a new pepper that was just released. The Behavior Pepper tracks ajax/javascript events (like popups or ajax requests) that occur between full pageloads.
By default, mint will only track hits where there is complete refresh or loading of a new webpage. For example, browser-side javascript events that use ajax to reload portion of the page, or that display previously hidden content, will go unnoticed. The Behavior Pepper fills this gap by allowing you to specify custom events you’d like to monitor.
More information is available here:
http://vocalnation.net/posting/229/Behavior+Pepper/
and you can download it here:
http://haveamint.com/peppermill/pepper/54/behavior/
Cheers - Tony
[...] The next step is tracking your visitors, seeing where they came from, what they saw, and how they left. You will be able to easily assess what content your readers appreciate the most and concentrate on that aspect of your blog. Most webhosts include some type of stats monitoring applications such as the Urchin suite. However, I use Mr. Inman’s Mint religiously. The best part of Mint is an open API that lets developers create plugins called Peppers that dramatically extend functionality. I had previously posted an article about the top Peppers I use. It is definitely worth a look if you want to get a better idea of how great Mint can make your life. There is also a Mint Pepper for tracking your FeedBurner stats. [...]
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Very nice! Thanks for the nice pepper, I’ll use it.