Using Yahoo! Weather feed

[Aragorn]

I want to use Yahoo! weather feeds on my site. Unfortunately, after reading the terms of use (http://developer.yahoo.com/weather/#terms) I am a little doubtful on whether it is ok to use the feed on my site.
The feeds are provided free of charge for use by individuals and non-profit organizations for personal, non-commercial uses.
I want to use the feeds on a site on bangalore I am planning to develop. I have plans for providing some services on the site. Do you think I am eligible for using the content as per the terms?

Their help section (http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/weather/general/weather-13.html) says,
Can I use Yahoo!'s images and other data on my web page?


Unfortunately, any redistribution of weather data (images, news, or other information) from our site is strictly prohibited. Since we license the data ourselves, we cannot give you permission to use Yahoo! Weather news or data for any reason.

Licensing information and/or permission can be obtained only by contacting Weather.com directly.

You are welcome to link to Yahoo! Weather. You can link directly to local forecasts. We'll even generate a button for you to use on your site!

If it is not allowed to use their weather data on other sites, then why do they provide information on how to get and use the weather data on a site at http://developer.yahoo.com/weather/ ?

Please advice me, I am totally confused. Is there any other free weather feed providers?

[Jim_]

I'd say it's a bit of a grey-area. I would recommend contacting Yahoo! about whether or not you can use their feeds on your site.

After a bit of googling around, it looks like most weather rss feeds are free for personal and non-commercial usage. If you're not charging for users to view the weather information, that could be called a non-commercial usage in my opinion, but your best bet is to contact a few of the sites offering weather feeds and explain your situation to them.

[pepsipunk]

If it is not allowed to use their weather data on other sites, then why do they provide information on how to get and use the weather data on a site at http://developer.yahoo.com/weather/ ?

Please advice me, I am totally confused. Is there any other free weather feed providers?


The feeds are provided free of charge for use by individuals and non-profit organizations for personal, non-commercial uses.

It's fine to have a widget or something that pulls the info to your desktop or whatever, but pulling the information to your website is prohibited. they have the rss feeds for personal use.

[Aragorn]

Thanks a lot for your replies.
I'd say it's a bit of a grey-area. I would recommend contacting Yahoo! about whether or not you can use their feeds on your site.

After a bit of googling around, it looks like most weather rss feeds are free for personal and non-commercial usage. If you're not charging for users to view the weather information, that could be called a non-commercial usage in my opinion, but your best bet is to contact a few of the sites offering weather feeds and explain your situation to them.
I too have been googling for the last two days without success :(. Any idea how I can contact them regarding this?
It's fine to have a widget or something that pulls the info to your desktop or whatever, but pulling the information to your website is prohibited. they have the rss feeds for personal use.

It is legal to use their feed in some websites.
The Yahoo! Weather RSS feed enables you to get up-to-date weather information for your location. You can save this feed in My Yahoo! or your favorite feed aggregator, or incorporate the RSS data into your own web site or client application.
Courtesy: http://developer.yahoo.com/weather/

What I would like to know is whether my site belongs to that group.