legal question regarding publishing of stock prices on website

[shodge37]

ok - here's the scenario:

the web guy where i work has been asked by management to have either a stock ticker or a dynamic price on our company's website. he thinks he can just write a script to take the info off yahoo finance or similar place and just put it there. the other IT admin and i both think that you cannot publish that information without a license or subscription to a place that allows you to publish it.

so i have 2 questions:

1. who is right?
2. is there some definitive information on a website about this kind of thing that i can look at to make sure?

TIA

 

[hellman69]

Go here: http://finance.yahoo.com/badges/
You can get the quotes from free without having to steal their CSV files and parsing them.

Trevor

 

[EagleKeeper]

The main thing to realize is that all the Free feeds are usually delayed from 10-20 minutes.

 

[hypn0tik]

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
The main thing to realize is that all the Free feeds are usually delayed from 10-20 minutes.

I thought they all were? Are there any that aren't delayed?

 

[EagleKeeper]

Originally posted by: hypn0tik

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
The main thing to realize is that all the Free feeds are usually delayed from 10-20 minutes.

I thought they all were? Are there any that aren't delayed?

There are subscription services that allow real-time feeds

 

[shodge37]

Originally posted by: hellman69
Go here: http://finance.yahoo.com/badges/
You can get the quotes from free without having to steal their CSV files and parsing them.

Trevor

thanks. i looked at that. unfortunately, it currently only has badges for the american markets and i'm in canada. i'll keep looking for a canadian one.

but i guess that means that it's not illegal, eh?

 

[Beev]

Yahoo finance doesn't like you pinging TOO much, regardless of it it says "free" or not. My place of employment hits Yahoo finance about 3000 times an hour and I believe they send you a notice if you break 5000.

 

[hellman69]

Originally posted by: shodge37

Originally posted by: hellman69
Go here: http://finance.yahoo.com/badges/
You can get the quotes from free without having to steal their CSV files and parsing them.

Trevor

thanks. i looked at that. unfortunately, it currently only has badges for the american markets and i'm in canada. i'll keep looking for a canadian one.

but i guess that means that it's not illegal, eh?

Yeah, I guess so. We just switched to the badges for out corporate site. Prior to that, I wrote a script that would grab the CSV file every half hour, then the page would parse that cached file. Never had a problem with it and never heard from Yahoo about it.

Trevor