WRT scraping, it is getting harder because funny websites w/ no static content where everything is generated via Angular or Perpendicular or sth. are really hard to deal with. Recently my uni switched from an army of Wordpress websites to an homegrown AJAX-MVC-Reactive abomination where the links are reimplemented via some funny black magic where the actual link items (which are not anchors btw) don't have encoded in them the link targets, but only an onclick event that knows somehow where to go. And because they just killed all the RSS feeds, I wrote up sth. to revive them for me via phantomjs, but could not figure how to find the link targets, I cannot link the RSS items to anywhere but the main announcements page, and I can't add any description from the link target.
RSS should be kept, those who don't know the job they are doing should be replaced.