Google FeedBurner is a free service that lets generate and manage RSS feeds for your website or blog. Each generated RSS feed has its own unique identification, which is quite simple to locate, as long as you know where to look. FeedBurner users and developers who take advantage of the service’s Application Programming Interface (API) should know where to find the ID, as it may be needed in blog plugins and applications.
A Google FeedBurner ID serves the purpose of identifying a particular feed. As there are millions of feeds “burned” or served up by FeedBurner, each one must be easily identifiable by their system, otherwise it would start serving the wrong content for each feed. Since Google’s acquisition of FeedBurner in 2007, ID numbers became identification names, which are generally chosen by the user when setting up the feed.
To find your FeedBurner ID for a feed you manage on the service, you’ll need to first log into the site. After you are logged in, click the feed title link. On the next page, click the “Edit Feed Details” link near the top. The text in the “Feed Address” field is your FeedBurner ID for that particular feed. It is unique for each feed and cannot be the same as any other feed.
Your FeedBurner ID may be required by plugins on different blogging platforms, like WordPress or Movable Type. It is useful to know where you can find this information, so you can easily input the information in the plugin’s settings page. However, sometimes a plugin asks for the full feed address, which includes the ID too.
If you are a software or application developer, you might need to access a FeedBurner ID with the FeedBurner API. If you have designed an application that requires user input of the ID, then you want to know where to find, that way you can give clear instructions to the user.
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