jaxed and craigslist

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Seth Vidal

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Oct 4, 2011, 12:04:52 AM10/4/11
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Hi folks,
I don''t know if I was the only one here who used bike.jaxed.com to
look for rivs (and other bikes) available on craigslist. But I used it
quite a bit and when the craigslist links were removed due to a C&D
from craigslist I was a bit sad.

So I wrote a craigslist crawler for my own personal use that takes a
simple config file and searches for whatever I want over whatever set
of cities from craigslist then parses out the results (and pictures)
and makes a nice page of the 100 most recent ads from craigslist.

It's not entirely trivial to use - you need the programming language
python and at least one non-default module (BeautifulSoup)

If you're comfortable with python and with command line programs in
general and would like to take a look at it email me off-list.

-sv

cyclotourist

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Oct 4, 2011, 12:11:29 AM10/4/11
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Yeah, that crimped my online buying style... I was able to get some pretty cool bikes via Jaxed... :-(


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rob markwardt

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Oct 4, 2011, 12:39:27 AM10/4/11
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"Cool"....says the man with addictions, but... "please don't pass the
bottle to me".

Joe Bernard

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Oct 4, 2011, 4:14:34 PM10/4/11
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I found a '94 XO-3 through JaXed..a very hard to find model which I was looking for to replace one that was stolen many years ago. No JaXed, no Bstone. It sucks that Craigslist freaked out.
 
 

Bruce Baker

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Oct 4, 2011, 5:05:50 PM10/4/11
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Here is a search engine that I use now that there is no JaXed
http://www.crazedlist.org/

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Joe Bernard <joer...@gmail.com> wrote:
I found a '94 XO-3 through JaXed..a very hard to find model which I was looking for to replace one that was stolen many years ago. No JaXed, no Bstone. It sucks that Craigslist freaked out.
 
 

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andrew hill

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Oct 4, 2011, 6:08:20 PM10/4/11
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Yeah that's good one.

I use crazedlist to create a list of RSS feeds that I then import into a reader.   

Works a bit better than inside a webpage, and doesn't break b/c it just recreates CL's regular RSS for you.

cyclotourist

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Oct 4, 2011, 10:11:58 PM10/4/11
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This works ok:  http://www.searchtempest.com/

Nothing is as good as Jaxed, especially as they had the pictures which let me screen quickly through all the junk postings.


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