New Craigslist Search Tool, I've written it and you can try it out Options

[sandusky1977]

Hey all, I've been working on a way to search more than one Craigslist for a while, and have built a new tool, http://www.clrds.com/


The process is simple, select your category (cars & trucks), select your state (MI), select the cities from that state you want to check, enter what you are looking for, such as Celica, and a price range, and you get a full page of results from around your state.

I've got my account setup with saved searches of Celica's in Michigan, IN, OH, IL, and several cars that I'm watching.

Take it for a test run, I'm planning on charging at some point in the future, something like .99 a month for regular users, and 9.99 for power users.

I'm also planning to ad a feature to allow scheduled runs of your searches, with an email feature to update you of new results in your areas.

Check it out, and let me know what errors you find, or problems that come up. I've found that I need to tailor the searches a little more specifically such as hoses, should have an option to select bedrooms, bathrooms etc... but it was built so I could find cars.


More than anything I just need some users at the moment to see what bandwidth is going to be, and figure out a scale for charging.

[Box]

Sweet on the title search option. I meant to say something yesterday but forgot, when I tried it out yesterday I noticed the amount of results given is limited to a certain amount? Also I'm not sure if it'd be possible, but having it search within a radius of your ZIP code would be cool. Where I am located in Alabama, there are places in Georgia, Tennessee, and Mississippi that are closer to me than let's say Mobile which is also in Alabama.

[sandusky1977]

Sweet on the title search option. I meant to say something yesterday but forgot, when I tried it out yesterday I noticed the amount of results given is limited to a certain amount? Also I'm not sure if it'd be possible, but having it search within a radius of your ZIP code would be cool. Where I am located in Alabama, there are places in Georgia, Tennessee, and Mississippi that are closer to me than let's say Mobile which is also in Alabama.

Box,. I'm currently prototyping the radius feature, you can share your location, or enter your zip and select your radius. The other option would be to allow more than one state to be selected in the first step,. I can turn that and the cities in to more of an autogenerated as you select with multiselect if that would be more useful.

I've been testing on my local server, and I'm able to run 5 states worth of CL cities all at once, so it shouldn't be a big issue to make that available to more users.