Here's a less known feature of craiglist. Say you are looking to buy a car and are looking for a particular type/price-range etc. The url for honda civics costing less than $5000 in Los Angeles looks like this "http://losangeles.craigslist.org/search/car?query=honda+civic&minAsk=&maxAsk=5000". All you need to do to convert this into an RSS feed is add "&format=rss" at the end of the url. This gives the listings in a RSS feed format and can be read by a feed reader. So, you can stay on top of the listings and be notified within minutes of a relevant posting.
This works for other craigslist searches as well: e.g. the following provides a feed for rental listings for a 1BR apartment in Mountain View costing less than 1500 per month:
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/apa/sby/35?query=&minAsk=min&maxAsk=1500&bedrooms=1&neighborhood=35&format=rss
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Personalized craigslist RSS feeds
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Potentially useful as well - a craigslist rss reader that notifies you by email or textmessage whenever there are new listings for your search:
http://craigslistwatch.com
Great tip! Very useful. Simple. Works great.
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