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Tech help request: Feed of road deaths

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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14 Responses to “Tech help request: Feed of road deaths”

  1. John Kelly says:
    April 4, 2006 at 1:04 pm

    Feed43 is built for just this kind of thing – ad-hoc feed scraping. I created a road deaths feed.

  2. Donncha O Caoimh says:
    April 4, 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!

  3. Donncha O Caoimh says:
    April 4, 2006 at 2:26 pm

    John – is that feed ok? It no workee for me. The browser just keeps loading.

  4. d says:
    April 4, 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

  5. John Kelly says:
    April 4, 2006 at 2:47 pm

    Donncha: yep, tested on Windows, Linux and OS X. All worked fine.

  6. David Cochrane says:
    April 4, 2006 at 3:02 pm

    That’s kinda vile Damien!

  7. bernar says:
    April 4, 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

  8. bernard says:
    April 4, 2006 at 4:38 pm

    That should have been plural..as in bollocks.

  9. Joe Drumgoole says:
    April 6, 2006 at 1:01 pm

    Yikes, beaten to the punch I did a feed43 feed as well before checking the comments.

  10. Copacetic » Blog Archive » Feeds for road deaths in Ireland says:
    April 6, 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. […]

  11. adam says:
    April 7, 2006 at 2:28 am

    Speed kills kids. You know it mocks sense.

  12. Copacetic » Blog Archive » RoadDeaths.net launches says:
    May 9, 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. […]

  13. kahn says:
    February 20, 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.

  14. nightskyspy says:
    April 8, 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.