Tech help request: Feed of road deaths
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Can anyone out there turn this Garda Road Death stats page into a feed and possibly one we can also put on our blogs? Perhaps if not too morbid a simple bit of javascript that displays a bit of text in a blog sidebar stating “23 road deaths since January 1st 2006″ which then links to the Garda website. Can any of the tech gurus out there do this?
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April 4th, 2006 at 1:04 pm
Feed43 is built for just this kind of thing - ad-hoc feed scraping. I created a road deaths feed.
April 4th, 2006 at 2:22 pm
I was about to mention that site. Justin Mason mentioned it a few days ago, but looks like John beat me to the punch. I’m going to add that feed to my WordPress.com sidebar in an RSS widget!
April 4th, 2006 at 2:26 pm
John - is that feed ok? It no workee for me. The browser just keeps loading.
April 4th, 2006 at 2:30 pm
It appears that ehe Garda themselves update this page manually. I could be wrong too.The source is littered with bits like:
(6/4/06)
102
40
April 4th, 2006 at 2:47 pm
Donncha: yep, tested on Windows, Linux and OS X. All worked fine.
April 4th, 2006 at 3:02 pm
That’s kinda vile Damien!
April 4th, 2006 at 4:35 pm
Mulley!
Ya bollock! I have spent about 2 hours parsing that f*&king site BY HAND!
Gah! You and your challenges!
Have a look at this: http://feed43.com/8616326358610535.xml
April 4th, 2006 at 4:38 pm
That should have been plural..as in bollocks.
April 6th, 2006 at 1:01 pm
Yikes, beaten to the punch I did a feed43 feed as well before checking the comments.
April 6th, 2006 at 1:12 pm
[...] Many people (including myself) answered Damien Mulley’s call for help with converting the garda road deaths statistics page to a news feed. A free tool, feed43 seemed to be most people’s weapon of choice. [...]
April 7th, 2006 at 2:28 am
Speed kills kids. You know it mocks sense.
May 9th, 2006 at 7:29 pm
[...] Ken lets us know about RoadDeaths.net. I wonder if they could use some of the feeds that Damien Mulley rounded up? I couldn’t see any reference to a feed like that on the site. [...]
February 20th, 2007 at 8:10 am
Cool..thanks! Have you looked at http://www.Feedity.com? It works well too, and its very slick (love its simplicity) … check it out.
April 8th, 2007 at 11:41 pm
I tried to create the feed to the garda site but no luck
I tried both feed43 and feedburner. It is a good idea and I wanted to join. In Poland over this Easter weekend 24 people died in 178 crashes 239 people injured.
In Ireland we still remember the four young Poles who died in a crash on Good Friday last year.