[thelist] Putting a stock price on your site

[Feingold Josh S]

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You have raised a fair question.

Who says that there is a legal issue for taking public information supplied
via Yahoo and posting it on your site?  Is there a copywrite problem with
this data?  Is this fall under the category of "fair use"? This is probably
a question to ask legal.  There might not be any legal issue here at all.  I
for sure don't know.

Also, from the perspective of what is done, I know that PHP has a number of
modules that query different information providers and return a result.  So
I don't know that Yahoo would target your company over any of the others
that use similar modules.  If you want to keep the queries down (which would
be the nice thing to do) maybe you could cache results once a minute.

Start here for more information:

https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=1544&group_id=4232









-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Galvin [mailto:michael at sourcedesign.ie]
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 10:35 AM
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: [thelist] Putting a stock price on your site


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
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