Cricket Live Scores : RSS Feeds or Parsing entire HTML? [closed]

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I want to develop an android application, that displays live cricket scores as well as some other information about matches like, venue, time, about past matches, future matches, news etc..

I got two ways for doing this application : 1. 开发者_Go百科Parsing an HTML Page. 2. Live Scores RSS Feeds.

I think parsing is rather inconvenient, not safer way to do this. Again i think it will be ofcourse Illegal only.

For RSS Feeds :

First this, i googled out almost two days full for finding RSS feeds, but at the end, it didnt return me anything.

Yaa, one thing i found in stackoverflow is this.

I have gone thru that also. But the problem is it only provides live team scores of current match not the complete scorecard.

Is there anything that provides full scorecard of current match as well as past matches. ?

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I would recommend you to parse RSS feeds of

www.espncricinfo.com

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No one will give you for free the complete detailed scorecard, venues, ball by ball comparison, graphs , run rate and other things.

If you can afford you can request the concerned authorities of www.espncricinfo.com to give you the RSS feeds for money. Else for free/educational purposes, you'll have to parse their entire html pages. They are a very authentic genuine website, and have the same layout for many years now. So your HTML parsing would work for a long time for educational purposes ...

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If you have to ask, you must realize that you're already in a grey area.

I would consider what you are describing as commercial re-use, as you are effectively taking other people's hard work and making money off it. Every time they make an update to some content, you make a buck, even though they've explicitly said you can't use it in that way.

You will need to consult a lawyer for a definitive answer.