On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 6:43 PM, lesssugar <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm planning to implement RSS aggregator in my app, using instruction from > the book: > > http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/10/services?search=rss#RSS > > The twist is to firstly store the news in my database, and display the > feed using the stored data. > > My questions: > > 1) Does anyone know whether it is legal to store this kind of data from > external source? > - I assume that is safe to say, if you are not or do not pretend to make money from it, you should not have problems, otherwise, be careful. - Do not display full content from the feeds, unless explicit permitted. - Always indicate the feed source and link the original content. - Be gentle with how many times you poll a feed (one, two time per hour should be fine and sufficient). Take this as a common sense advice and not a legal one. Like, probably, everyone in this list, I'm not a lawyer. 2) How do I fetch the data to DB first? Do I use background-running script > or web2py's cron? > On my personal feeds aggregator I'm using a background process to fetch the feeds and insert into sqlite and whoosh. Ricardo -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
