I'm creating an RSS reader and having trouble with feedburner feeds

Question

I'm using the Google Feed API to get feeds and the results contain an link field which is great however a feedburner feed returns something to the effect of google.feedproxy.blahblahblah and I need the actual url for the html. The google.feedproxy url will redirect. Is there a way using Javascript for me to get the url that is being redirected to? Or even just a more elegant way of getting the html url?

Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

Grab the text in <feedburner:origLink>. it's available in most of the feedburner feeds.

Answer 2

Make sure your Accept header is limited to the RSS and Atom MIME types. If by HTML URL, you mean the site for the feed, look for a <link rel="alternate"/> in the feed itself, as its href is the relevant site.