Activities / What code does
Reuses other publishers' content
aggregates_content
Your app republishes, excerpts, links to, or indexes content another publisher made first: headlines, articles, snippets, or images.
- scope code
- in the registry since 1.0
- 398 laws in 226 jurisdictions name it
What triggers it
The lint's definition. It republishes, excerpts or indexes news or other publishers' content, by any means.
This covers a news-aggregation app that lists headlines linking out to original articles, a digest that quotes a short excerpt from each story it summarizes, and a search or preview feature that shows thumbnails or snippets of other sites' pages.
What does not
Linking to a single article a user pastes in themselves, with no ongoing collection, does not count.
Often confused with Crawls the web.
The law it brings into scope
The kinds of law that name this activity in the LexLint law library, with the number of laws and jurisdictions in each, as of . The examples are chosen by rule, laws in force first and the widest jurisdiction first; each section's page lists every law.
Counterparties that usually come with it
- the publishers whose feeds it reads
- a news or search API
A component that cannot run as documented without one of these names
it in its ACTIVITIES.md under talks_to, with
required: true. That party's jurisdiction then joins the
run of every product that uses the component, and the finding says
why it is there. A default the deployer can change is asked about,
never added. Talking to a party never makes a product that party.
In a declaration
A library or framework that makes this possible enables
it; an application whose shipped code does it performs it.
For a library
For an application
History
In the registry since version 1.0, .
In the glossary: Reuses other publishers' content.
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