FeedBurner Feed Management API

We confess to not really knowing when it is and isn't ok to use the word "Mashup", so we're a little bit shy about announcing the availability of the complete FeedBurner Feed Management API, lest somebody do something cool with our API and some other 3rd party app and ask us if the result is a mashup. We understand that The Grey Album is a mashup, and that the Google Maps plus Flickr app is apparently a mashup, but where does it end? Is the legislative branch of the US Government really nothing more than a Senate/House mashup?

Fortunately, these heady matters are for the braintrust over at Wikipedia to answer, and we can go about our business of creating powerful new ways to burn, edit and retrieve analytics for FeedBurner feeds via our RESTful web services API. For those of you just joining the program, our new Feed Management API is sort of like a universal remote control for FeedBurner services. You can create, manage and remove feeds in your account without ever visiting feedburner.com. We suspect you'll never have to get off the couch again.

Much like our Awareness API, the Feed Management API is not for the faint of heart and will require some familiarity with XML and web services programming skillz to implement. There is complete documentation for the API, as well as a fairly thorough set of feed management examples using curl. We welcome any and all feedback. A number of customers and partners are already using the API, but there may still be some bugs hither and thither. Also note that the previously available Awareness API has been extended to support authenticated non-public use, for those folks who want to download their own stats remotely but don't want the data publicly available.

Tired of coming to FeedBurner to analyze your stats? Use the API. Tired of "logging in" via a "browser" to "edit" your feed "settings"? Use the API.

What can't you do with the API? Nothing, with one exception. The API has a built-in limit of 20 burned feeds per user id. We will ratchet this down even lower if it's abused, but that seems like a reasonable number to get started. If you want to burn and manage more than 20 feeds via the API for a single user, you should email our business development group: newbiz at feedburner dot com. Also, you will need to have a valid FeedBurner user account created from the Web site to play.

Customers and partners are granted special powers and the twenty feed limitation is removed. Some people might not refer to the elimination of an API restriction as "special powers," but we're suckers for dramatic language and hyperbole. We're done announcing now. Code amongst yourselves.