Nick Lewis wrote:
Hi folks, I'm in the early stages of building a set of scripts that parse out info about hits to a site's RSS feed. The goal is to trasmogrify what is now only viewable as thousands of anonymous hits to node/feed to a list of total hits to node/feed by ip address. My hope is that this will be the foundation for a module/feature that gives me a ballpark idea of how many RSS subscribers I actually have.
How about amending the feed's link URLs? eg node/5 becomes feedtracker/{sessionid}/node/5 A module can log and 302-redirect "clicks". This rather depends on aggregators being trackable by session ID, which I have no knowledge of at all. But ferchrissakes *please* don't go anywhere near IP addresses. The number of things which I've had to clean up in my life because a site happens to have lots of (eg) AOL users [1] is turning me grey before my time. jh [1] Before replying with something regarding RSS and AOL, read that again and notice I said 'eg' as well.