RSS Feeds for Events in Dublin
So, now that I’m back in Dublin, I’ve taken a quick look around for ways to
keep up to date on upcoming live gigs — and found that the situation, frankly,
sucks. In particular, almost none of the sites are offering RSS or Atom feeds
yet.
Having said that, Waxy and
Leonard’s Upcoming.org is
doing quite nicely for the Dublin metro
area:
Upcoming.org: Dublin EventsAnd lots of credit for the promoter, MCD, who seem to be just
about the only Irish listings site who offer RSS:
This is fantastic, but — naturally — they don’t cover events put on by their
competitors. 
Apart from that, it’s pretty shoddy. Lots of late-90’s-looking
websites out there, and no feeds in sight. Thankfully, Feed43, and some perl scripting, is on hand to
allow me to take matters into my own hands.
Entertainment Ireland offer a pretty good music news
section — but sans feed. Feed43
saves the day:
And, surprisingly, Ticketmaster, of all sites, is turning out to be a great
way to find out what’s on in Dublin, listing pretty much all ticketed events in
a nice, clean, succinct format. Unfortunately, the highest location resolution
it offers for Ireland is the country as a whole.
However, this can be worked around by subscribing to
individual venues, such as
Crawdaddy
or The Village. (This has a happy
side-effect of narrowing down the types of music — I can skip finding
out that The
Eagles are playing, since they won’t be playing at Crawdaddy
For some reason, though, Ticketmaster haven’t got around to offering their own
RSS feeds. Not a problem — in response I’ve hacked up tm2rss.cgi, a
little script which scrapes the venue pages and produces RSS:
For other venues, simply take the venue URL (for example,
http://www.ticketmaster.ie/venue/198641 for The Village), add the numeric
venue ID in place of NNNNN in this URL:
http://taint.org/scraped/tm2rss.cgi?v=NNNNN , then use that as the Feed URL in
your feed reader.
This post was written by Justin, source: RSS Feeds for Events in Dublin
