FIRST Event Data in XML format

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by rsisk

What a joy it would be if First offered some way to get to this information besides parsing their web sites. Not 100% sure what I would expect, maybe a web service that made the data available?

The FMSFRC twitter feed came close to offering some data in a real time feed format, and maybe that is the answer. But now it is tough to go back and scrape all that data from twitter pages if you didn't get it during the realtime feed.

Richard, I will be making the entire FRCFMS feed (That twitter still lets me grab) available as soon as I get time to do it. I have a script written to do it. If someone would like to run it I can give instructions on doing it.

Yes FIRST would make all of our lives simpler if they would find a standard and stick to it. Either let us have an API we can make calls to (Published well before kickoff) or at least have a standardized page layout and don't change it without warning us and telling us about the changes. One of the additional reasons for this project is that we have a STANDARD way of accessing data.

If anyone would like to offer assistance feel free to shoot me a PM.