Free RSS feeds (Commercial use)
Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2004 1:23 pm
I'm just polishing up a recruitment website I've been developing and I left this till last because I hadn't done any XML parsing before.
I took a shortcut anyway and I'm using an aggregator script I downloaded off hotscripts. Time is money.
Anyway the client wanted a couple of news feeds from external sites on their news page to supplement it. They specifically requested BBC news and Financial Times.
So I took a look at their RSS feeds and the BBC have copyright restrictions in place for commercial use (FT don't seem to have any feeds?!) so I can't include them on the site.
I did a search for other sources of news and can only find ZDnet UK which offers feeds freely for commercial use.
Does anyone know of any others. The client specifically wants Business/Employment/Economics news rather than main headlines.
<rant>
I don't know what these sites problems is/are. I thought the point of one of the Ss in RSS was SYNDICATION. As long as the link points back to the originating source and the full story isn't stolen and reformatted to be passed off as original work without credit to the source then what harm is done? If anything we'd be driving more traffic TO their sites.
</rant>
Thanks for any help/links
Lee
I took a shortcut anyway and I'm using an aggregator script I downloaded off hotscripts. Time is money.
Anyway the client wanted a couple of news feeds from external sites on their news page to supplement it. They specifically requested BBC news and Financial Times.
So I took a look at their RSS feeds and the BBC have copyright restrictions in place for commercial use (FT don't seem to have any feeds?!) so I can't include them on the site.
I did a search for other sources of news and can only find ZDnet UK which offers feeds freely for commercial use.
Does anyone know of any others. The client specifically wants Business/Employment/Economics news rather than main headlines.
<rant>
I don't know what these sites problems is/are. I thought the point of one of the Ss in RSS was SYNDICATION. As long as the link points back to the originating source and the full story isn't stolen and reformatted to be passed off as original work without credit to the source then what harm is done? If anything we'd be driving more traffic TO their sites.
</rant>
Thanks for any help/links
Lee