27
2011
It’d be great if lottery websites set up APIs, RSS feeds or publicly-accessible JSON data so that web developers could re-publish lottery numbers on their web sites or in their apps. Unfortunately, state and national lotteries don’t have much interest in sending consumers to web sites other than their own to find results/winning numbers.
When I first started looking into this issue, I thought that lottery commissions might actually copyright winning numbers. However, a blurb on Saliu seems to indicate they can’t:
“I don’t think a lottery commission will ever claim copyright ownership over its drawings. No religions can claim copyrights over their gods. The lottery draws are ruled by Randomness the Almighty. No entity has copyrights over Almighty Randomness. Anybody can publish things like “These are the winning lotto numbers drawn by this lottery commission on this date…”
What lottery commissions can do, however, is stop your automated script from scraping their site for data by blocking your IP. That means that if you want to publish winning lottery numbers on your site, you’re probably going to have to enter them by hand, or pay someone else who’s entering them by hand to provide you with a feed. I’ve found a few sites online that do just that. I can’t vouch for any of these (and there are lots more out there), but these sites claim to provide accurate lotto numbers that you can re-publish on your site for a fee:
These sites both provide winning lottery numbers in XML, Javascript, HTML, or text.
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