I don't see how programmatically scraping the site into an RSS feed for personal use could be against any laws. You could just as easily set up a Windows scheduled task that lauched the site every hour and read the results yourself.
The key bit here being 'personal use' and not sharing it with the world at large. I have some Perl script scapes of public sites into RSS format, and the results are mine and mine alone. I don't see how this differs from reading the results by eye every few hours? Mark. --- In [email protected], "FGM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As others have suggested, I've been using an XMethods Web service for this. > It has the distinct advantage of being at no charge and allowed for use, > whereas scraping a public site to access this information without a valid > license could probably be sued as trespassing. > > > Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:12:16 +0100 > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Currency Exchange Rate RSS ? > > > > hi syndic8, > > > > i'm looking for an rss feed that will give me the current USD to Euro > > currency exchange rate, without a lot of extra information. > > > > has anyone seen something like this somewhere (have already done a search > > on syndic8 but have found nothing)? > > > > or do i have to put together some kinda scrape for this? > > > > thanks, > > > > tom > > > [...] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Has someone you know been affected by illness or disease? Network for Good is THE place to support health awareness efforts! http://us.click.yahoo.com/Rcy2bD/UOnJAA/cosFAA/IRislB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> If you're getting "too much mail" then send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (this will tell it to stop sending you mail) To change your membership use THIS WEB PAGE: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/syndic8/join (here you can set your mail to digest, no mail or LEAVE the list) To find more info about Syndicated XML newsfeeds visit http://www.syndic8.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/syndic8/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
