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ScraperWiki
ScraperWiki is a site and platform for building data scrapers that can transform unstructured data such as plain text files or tables on web pages (or even in PDFs) into structured data that can be queried with an API in JSON or XML format. Scrapers can be written in Python, Ruby, or PHP, and can be edited by anyone who has registered for the site (the “wiki” in the name). Non-programmers can request a data set and let the community help by putting together a working scraper. Source: Journalism Accelerator
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The ScraperWiki API API now has an option to make RSS feeds as a format (i.e. instead of JSON, CSV or HTML tables).
For example, Anna made a scraper that gets alocohol licensing applications for Islington in London. She wanted an RSS feed to keep track of new applications using Google Reader. Read more about it on their blog: http://blog.scraperwiki.com/2011/09/21/make-rss-with-an-sql-query/