I just tried seaching "craigslist pinball" on google and it came up
with a bunch of ads.
Tom
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Chris
I have it set up to where as e-mail is sent to my brain the moment the
seller clicks 'submit'. It's the latest and greatest.
'> 'That's all good but some people have something that runs
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he's talking about RSS feeds. Go to your local craigslist, search for
"pinball", go to the bottom right corner of the results page, and
click on the "RSS" button. You can then either bookmark the RSS feed
in Firefox or IE, or pass the RSS feed to an RSS aggregator like
SharpReader ( http://www.sharpreader.net/ ) or Vista's built-in RSS
aggregator (in your gadgets), and it will automatically pop up a
notification whenever something new is posted.
Lather, rinse, and repeat for the craigslists of all the other cities
in driving distance. (If you want to be clever, you can skip a lot of
steps by just replacing the city name in the RSS feed's URL.)
Another way to do this:
Google.com search
site:craigslist.org (your search terms)
then set the Advanced Search date settings to "past month" or "past
week", etc.
Does same thing.
- Matt
Well, no, a google search isn't the same thing as an RSS feed (you
have to run the google search yourself to get the latest results,
whereas the RSS feed runs constantly and automatically notifies you by
email / aggregator / mobile phone / dangerously experimental neural
implant / whatever the instant something new is posted), but that IS a
really good and easy way to get recent pinball postings from all of
craigslist (although it'll be a few hours behind because it'll take
google a while to discover the new page and index it). Thanks!
Yeah I mean I'm willing to bet that between an automated service
polling an RSS feed every once in a while (I am sure it doesn't do it
instantaneously just for you) and a search engine polling a site every
so often, it's probably pretty similar. Unless you are talking about
software you yourself are directly running that IS refreshing every
few seconds.
- Matt