Monitor Craigslist Easily

[Mark]

I have spent quite a few hours searching through all of the craigslist posts in Raleigh and the surrounding areas for different items and decided today to look for a way to simplify and streamline the process. Here's what I found:

I was generally searching just "humidor" in Raleigh, Charlotte, Greensboro, Eastern NC, Richmond VA, etc. not looking for something specific, but watching to see if any good deals popped up. I also read a lot of blogs and have a neat little program on my desktop that tells me when someone updates a blog I read. LETS PUT THESE TWO GREAT THINGS TOGETHER! Heres what to do:

Go to http://www.craigshelper.com

Enter whatever search term you would like ("humidor" for example) and the radius you would like to search. I put in 200 miles from Chapel Hill, NC.

When you press "search", little boxes will show up for every city in your area with the search results - pretty handy, huh? But wait...

Find where it says "Get RSS Feeds for this search" on the middle right side and click.

On the next page, click "Get RSS Feeds!" and download the corresponding OPML file to your desktop.

Import the file into your favorite RSS feed reader (Shrook is my favorite for Mac, but you can even just use the rss feed feature in Firefox or on Vista if you want) and VIOLA! Any time someone posts something about a humidor in your selected radius, you will be notified!

Hope this is helpful!

-Mark

[Lorglath]

neat! thanks for the tip!

[Mark C]

That'll save some time, thanks!

[s15driftking]

i always hoped they had a function like this. Genius!

[ucla695]

Thanks for posting this. I was looking on CL the other day and it was a PITA to search through everything. This makes it much easier. Thanks!

[dunng]

Great link, thanks! :ss

[Gargoyle]

I did not need to know about this!!!!!

Thank you and I hate you. :ss

[elderboy02]

I have to try this. Thanks!

[j-easy]

this is awesome, thanks!

[Smokin Gator]

I have been using Crazedlist for several years. This is WAY better!!! Thank you sir!

[md4958]

ive been looking for something like this thanks!!!

[Hardcz]

very awesome, thank you.

[DKPRLP]

I'll have to give it a try. I like craigs list for local stuff..

[MithShrike]

Thanks! It seems the eBay functionality may be impaired though...

[Cyclone]

Thanks for the info... Awesome tool...

[smokinj]

appreciate the tip:tu

[gvarsity]

Great tool thank you.

[rhythm11]

just what the Doctor ordered. I have been manually trying to do this, then thought I might try to come up with something. But this is just flat sweet and much more than I could have thought of...