Good RSS or XML feeds for lottery numbers?

Reply #5

amsoly41 — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 04:47:56 GMT

USA MEGA is by far the best site for reporting lottery results (Powerball) before 11:10PM EST

its server did not crash.

POWERBALL.COM REPORTED @ 11:11PM EST (most of the time powerball.com crashes)

I was surprised that kylottery.com posted about the same time powerball.com did.

Lottery post did not post changes until 11:14PM EST (still this is very good and the site did not crash)

I think it posted later because of a lot more data it has to handle like r... [ More ]

Reply #4

amsoly41 — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 17:46:39 GMT

I guess my best bet is to use something like html to rss and create my own.

http://www.wotzwot.com/

Thank you for your help.

all I am looking for is a simple RSS feed for just the Power Ball and Just the Mega Millions

Results

Winner or no Winner

Amount

http://www.usamega.com/ is a good link for just the Numbers and Jackpot amount.

That is what I am looking for except in RSS format.

Again Thank you for your help.

Reply #3

Todd — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 01:30:18 GMT

Continuing!

The Kansas RSS feed you provided is a news feed, not a results feed. (The term news is used loosely, as state lottery news is really just promotional material, rarely real news.)

If you were looking for a news feed, I would think that Lottery Post's RSS news feed would be what you were looking for, not sure why you would think the promo material from Kansas would be a good feed.

The Superpages results are not that good -- pretty late. You should compare when the Superpag... [ More ]

Reply #2

Todd — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 01:23:05 GMT

By the way, Lottery Post and USA Mega have a superior technology to most state lottery web sites, and when those other sites wither and go down under the pressure of traffic, both Lottery Post and USA Mega stay up and running. Also, both sites show the results as fast or faster than every other non-government web site on the Internet. Usually a few seconds or a minute after the official site shows the results.

Reply #1

Todd — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 01:20:30 GMT

You are unlikely to find a web site that provides an RSS feed for all lottery results.

The simple fact is that it is very expensive and difficult to pull together a quality real-time lottery results database, and anyone willing to go to the great time and expense to do it (like I have) would be unwilling to simply give it away by giving you an RSS feed. The only thing I require at Lottery Post is that the person simply visits this web site. Other that the simple act of visiting Lottery Post... [ More ]

Good RSS or XML feeds for lottery numbers?

amsoly41 — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 23:56:56 GMT

Does anyone know of a good rss or xml feed for lottery numbers

Megamillions or Powerball or both

What is RSS or XML

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_%28file_format%29

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive-into-xml.html

Most of the time when one goes to the main Powerball or Megamillions website right after a drawing the website is down.

Some times it takes a couple of hours before you can find out what the numbers were.

I have found some RSS feeds that are ok but I would like... [ More ]