RSS reader for Cricinfo - to display live cricket score

Question

1.00/5 (1 vote)

See more:

I want to develop Windows phone app for displaying live cricket scores.

For now, I plan to display RSS feeds from http://static.cricinfo.com/rss/livescores.xml - considering that this link will show all the live matches, lets select one of the link from above which is assume:
SA Vs Sri Lanka

Now, I was assuming I'll have similar Xml nodes and children as in the first link like "Channels","Title", "Description", etc which forms an RSS. But the actual live score URL does not contain those xml nodes.

So, my question is if I were to display the live score, do I need to parse the above URL which does not contain RSS feeds? Or is there any way around? Because if CricInfo (the site) decides to change the look and feel, then my parser will get screwed.

Any help is appreciated!

Posted 17-Aug-10 13:28pm

Mangesh P Deshpande

Add a Solution

Comments

Peter_in_2780 17-Aug-10 21:15pm

Why would you bother? Google gives nearly 15 million hits on "windows mobile rss reader free".

Mangesh P Deshpande 18-Aug-10 2:31am

Thanks for the reply Peter. Probably I did a poor job in putting together my question, sorry for that.. Let me explain again.

Yes, I'll get plenty of readily available RSS feeds reader online or even C# code snippets. But using them, I'll only be able to read http://static.cricinfo.com/rss/livescores.xml URL which contains some links to live matches.
But my interest doesn't end here. My priority is get that collection (live matches from the livescores.xml RSS feed, which can be done in numerous ways which I know) and then read the data from those URLs (example - SA Vs Sri Lanka[http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/463543.html?CMP=OTC-RSS])

Now, if you open this URL, you will observe it does not have any RSS feed tags. So the only way to show data(player's scores) from that URL is thru parsing it with some specific html tags.. So my question is (as I am working for the first time on RSS feeds) - Is that a right approach to parse the page for the data?

Toli Cuturicu 18-Aug-10 6:58am

What is cricket? A grasshopper?

3 solutions

Solution 3

Just be aware that the information on Cricinfo is their copyright, so there may be infringement issues.

Posted 20-Oct-10 21:57pm

Dalek Dave

Solution 2

We need to extract data out of the tags. We should loop through the tags and display the title tag it gives the current score of the match.

We can use http://static.cricinfo.com/rss/livescores.xml[^] feed itself.

But as your requirement is different we need to parse html data only cos as you said its not a rss feed page..For example tag of class "playerName" fetches the player name and class "battingRuns" gets the runs scored..

Posted 20-Oct-10 21:31pm

shamrocksu88

Updated 20-Oct-10 21:38pm

v3

Add a Solution

Add your solution here

Treat my content as plain text, not as HTML

Preview 0

…

Existing Members

Sign in to your account

...or Join us

Download, Vote, Comment, Publish.

Your Email
Password
Forgot your password?

Your Email
This email is in use. Do you need your password?
Optional Password

I have read and agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy
Please subscribe me to the CodeProject newsletters

When answering a question please:

Read the question carefully.
Understand that English isn't everyone's first language so be lenient of bad spelling and grammar.
If a question is poorly phrased then either ask for clarification, ignore it, or edit the question and fix the problem. Insults are not welcome.
Don't tell someone to read the manual. Chances are they have and don't get it. Provide an answer or move on to the next question.

Let's work to help developers, not make them feel stupid.

This content, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

idenizeni · Accepted Answer · 2010-08-18T10:59:00

Solution 1

The live match page is not RSS, it is HTML so you need to parse the HTML if you want the live match information.

Posted 18-Aug-10 10:59am

idenizeni