Stock Quote Snippets?

[miyagi]

One of our web sites discusses some stocks and we are interested in adding some sort of stock quote/ticker tool.

We have been working with code that grabs stock quote snippets from a major finance portal via a PHP HTTP request - and it works - but one of our concerns is that we'll anger someone from the portal with all of these server side requests.

Can anyone provide insight into what is and is not allowed as far as this goes?

[engine]

I assume you have not yet asked permission to poll their servers. If so, that needs to be your first port of call.

[miyagi]

Do you think they'll actually give permission?