Re: [syndication] Re: What is the state of syndicated stock quote info?

[Rael Dornfest <rael@oreilly.com>]

I should note that my posting in no way condoned the commercial use of
such modules.  I was just making note of their existence and ambiguousness
of the content availability.

On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Laird Popkin wrote:

> Reuters syndicates all of their feeds in their Internet Delivery 
> Service (using ICE and NewsML), which should include stock quotes. Of 
> course, you have to pay for it.
> 
> Knowing the companies that provide the actual stock data, I'd be 
> extremely surprised if it were legal for Yahoo to redistribute stock 
> quotes. They (or at least their legal department) must not know about 
> those tools.

> So I'd suggest that we're all much, much better off if we restrict 
> ourselves to syndication of content that people want redistributed,
> in 
> the way that they want it distributed. It's only decent to ask, and 
> not to attack the author's livelihood.

Agreed, of course.

> --- In syndication@egroups.com, Rael Dornfest <rael@o...> wrote:
> > While there doesn't seem to be any official word on whether or not 
> Yahoo!
> > approves, some folks do avail themselves of Yahoo! Finance's stock 
> quote
> > info.  Either Y! doesn't know -- extremely unlikely -- or doesn't 
> really
> > mind.  Whether or not this applies to what you're trying to 
> accomplish and
> > syndication in general, I'm not sure.
> > 
> > If you've not already done so, check out the following (easily 
> port-able)
> > Perl modules:
> > 
> > Finance::YahooQuote
> > 
> http://search.cpan.org/doc/DJPADZ/Finance-YahooQuote-0.17/YahooQuote.p
> m
> > 
> > Finance::YahooChart
> > 
> http://search.cpan.org/doc/DJPADZ/Finance-YahooChart-0.01/YahooChart.p
> m

Rael