Best way to track MSN

I use the Google and Yahoo APIs; what to do with MSN?

[suidas]

What's the best way to track MSN SERPs over time. Do people screen scrape, or is there some API I can't find info on? Does Microsoft mind if you screen-scrape? Are there any good Perl tools for it?

[rustybrick]

If you do a search on MSN, let's say for widgets [search.msn.com] at the bottom of the page is an RSS [search.msn.com] link, you can scrap the RSS results (XML) which is one reason it is there.

MSN has a blog entry on this subject named RSS Feeds for Search Results [blogs.msdn.com], kinda old, but it should make the point.

[sachin_ch]

yes i think xml is the only way,
but it makes tracking difficult