Syndication & Republication

What you may do without asking

• •Quote a reasonable extract — a paragraph or two — with attribution and a working link back to the story.
• •Link to any ShaadiNews page, with the headline and standfirst, in a newsletter, aggregator, or social post.
• •Reproduce our headlines and summaries in a feed reader or news aggregator, as our RSS feed is published for exactly that.
• •Cite us in an AI-generated answer, provided the citation names ShaadiNews and links to the story.

Machine-readable surfaces

Rather than have anyone scrape rendered HTML and guess at which part of the page is the story, we publish the reporting directly. All of these are generated live from the newsroom database, so a story appears on them the moment it is published.

/rss.xml

The 30 most recent stories, with excerpts, images, and tags.

/llms.txt

A markdown index of the publication: sections, the latest stories, and where the feeds are.

/llms-full.txt

The full clean text of recent reporting in markdown, with summary, key takeaways, body, and sources.

/sitemap.xml

The sitemap index, covering pages, the full article archive, and the Google News window.

AI and answer engines

We allow AI crawlers, both retrieval and training. Our robots.txt names them individually and permits them, and we maintain the markdown surfaces above so the text they receive is the text we wrote.

The condition is attribution. If our reporting informs an answer, name ShaadiNews and link to the story. Every article carries structured data giving the headline, byline, publication date, and the sources the story was reported from, precisely so that attribution is easy to get right.

Full-text republication

Republishing an article in full, whether in print, online, or in a commercial newsletter, needs a licence from us first. This is normally straightforward and often free for non-commercial and educational use.

Write to [email protected] with the article URL, where you intend to publish it, the audience size, and whether the use is commercial. Tell us your deadline and we will work to it.

Photography is licensed separately

A licence to republish an article does not carry the photographs with it. Wedding photography on this site is licensed to ShaadiNews by photographers, couples, and stock providers under terms that generally do not permit us to sub-license it onward.

If you need images, say so in your request and we will tell you which ones we can clear and which you would need to license from the photographer directly.

How to attribute

The form we ask for, in print or online:

• •Name the publication as ShaadiNews.
• •Name the reporter or desk carrying the byline on the story.
• •Link to the original article URL. Online, the link must be followable and must not carry a nofollow attribute.
• •Where the piece has been edited or shortened, say so.

What we do not permit

• •Republishing a story in full without a licence, including translated or lightly reworded versions.
• •Presenting our reporting as your own, or removing or obscuring the byline.
• •Altering a story so that it says something we did not report, while still attributing it to us.
• •Reusing our photography outside a licensed republication of the article it appeared in.

Contact

Syndication, licensing, and reprint rights: [email protected]. Corrections and editorial matters go to [email protected] instead — see the Editorial Guidelines.

All ShaadiNews content is copyright ShaadiNews Publishing Guild unless credited otherwise.