feedTwo sites that need RSS feeds
January 03, 2005 | 
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The Irish Times. Depending on the content, I'd consider paying 30 euros a year for a feed; not for email. The front page uses URIs and CSS in such a way that a feed scrape is possible (there's even a CSS class called 'headline'). The terms and conditions don't allow it however.
The RTE Guide. The UI for figuring out what's on is difficult to use (and not bookmarkable). A feed for TV channels would be so nice. I don't think scraping this is an option given the page design. The terms and conditions would seem to allow a scrape to be run locally and a feed driven into an aggregator via a file, but not published and downloaded via a URL.
January 3, 2005 10:52 AM
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In fact, I've been on to RTÉ before about just that and putting up a feed for the news site, but they've yet to reply.
I had Carlo Zottman create a scraped RSS feed for me for stuff.co.nz, it's the best 2EUR I've spent. Perhaps you could consider his service?
http://bootleg-rss.g-blog.net/journal/2004/07/announcement-accepting-feed-requests.html
Michael,
I have an RSS scraping script 'template' in Python. A scrape would break ireland.com's terms and conditions, even to drive a page locally on a machine into an aggregator.