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Recently, Feedburner counts had lots of problems and it’s hard to say that the provided info is still relevant.

This code will grab your subscriber count from the last 7 days and will return the average.

function get_average_readers($feed_id,$interval = 7){
$today = date('Y-m-d', strtotime("now"));
$ago = date('Y-m-d', strtotime("-".$interval." days"));
$feed_url="https://feedburner.google.com/api/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?
uri=".$feed_id."&dates=".$ago.",".$today;
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
url_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $feed_url);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($data);
$fb = $xml->feed->entry['circulation'];

$nb = 0;
foreach($xml->feed->children() as $circ){
$nb += $circ['circulation'];
}

return round($nb/$interval);
}