[thelist] Putting a stock price on your site

[Michael Galvin]

I'm surprised this hasn't been asked before, but a search of the evolt site
and theList turned up nothing, so here goes.

I'd like to put a client's stock price on his site.  The client would like
not to pay for it.  At the moment, I'm messing around with reading
finance.yahoo.com and parsing out the text I find, but the result is niether
satisfactory or exactly ethical.  If Yahoo (or Reuters who supply Yahoo)
come after my client, guess who'll get the blame.

I've searched around for cgi scripts, and of the ones I could get to work (a
lot were perl modules, which I suspect I would need to consult my friendly
ISP about installing for me), the layout, content, etc had to follow a set
standard, which is annoying to say the least.

Anyone any tips?

Michael