Is it legal to scrape stock quotes from google finance?

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wildwobby
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Is it legal to scrape stock quotes from google finance?

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I'm thinking about making this really cool webapp, but i need a bunch of stock quotes to feed into it. It is gonna be like a virtual stockmarket sort of. Is it legal to have a cron that will scrap quotes off of like thousands of pages every 15 minutes while the market is open? If not, is there a public feed I can use? I found quotemedia's XML feed but it costs a bunch.
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superdezign
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Google.com wrote:Personal Use Only

The Google Services are made available for your personal, non-commercial use only. You may not use the Google Services to sell a product or service, or to increase traffic to your Web site for commercial reasons, such as advertising sales. You may not take the results from a Google search and reformat and display them, or mirror the Google home page or results pages on your Web site. You may not "meta-search" Google. If you want to make commercial use of the Google Services, you must enter into an agreement with Google to do so in advance. Please contact us for more information.
I don't see anything free for you to use thus far.

It is free to add the general charts to your website though... It's the best I could do Stock Charts
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anjanesh
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Re: Is it legal to scrape stock quotes from google finance?

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There is one way to get this info as a service which is making rounds on the internet forums - but this goes against google's TOS for a public use.
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Benjamin
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Re: Is it legal to scrape stock quotes from google finance?

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If it violates their TOS, don't post it here.

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