Apps Advice for sports team app

[Pablo IRL]

Hello,

I'm relatively new to android development. I've done a bit before but nothing complex. I'm in my final year of college and need to take on a project. I'm considering making an app for a local football team. I've been playing around with it for the last few days. But I've 2 questions. Maybe you can point me in the right direction.

1) I want to parse data from the official website, but it's not in xml or json format. I want to parse the recent news articles, such as team news. How would I go about this?

2) I'd also like to incorporate the most recent tweets. But it seems this has been made more difficult to do than it used to be.

I've done some research already so I'm not just looking for shortcuts, just getting some opinions. Also it won't be a problem with using the clubs website information.

Thanks!

 

[Thom]

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... Thom

 

[jonbanjo]

Is there any chance of you talking to someone at the club and finding out if it would be possible for them (perhaps with your help) to make the data more easily accessible to you?

If it comes to the worst, I guess you could look at the html the site generates and try to find something, eg. a particular div that would help you extract the parts you want but I don't think that's a satisfactory solution. As well as having a lot of "junk" to wade through, your app could easily be broken by changes to the web site.