I'm a volunteer at the Idea Fab Labs maker/hacker/artspace here in Santa Cruz, and was asked to do a web app that would continually run on a desktop machine there, searching Craigslist every 15 minutes for items they're wanting to get for the facility that were posted today and are within an 80-mile radius of our zip code, and display them in clickable format in a reasonable UI. I'm using Python/Django, HTML5/CSS, Bootstrap, and a little JavaScript, and right now it looks like this:
And the Edit Search Settings screen looks like this (maybe later I'll redo it as a modal window instead):
As shown above, in addition to a zip code you need to specify a base Craigslist site. To quote from Julio M. Alegria's Simple Craigslist wrapper library README:
To get the right
site, follow these steps:
- Go to craigslist.org/about/sites.
- Find the country or city you're interested on, and click on it.
- You'll be directed to
<site>.craigslist.org. The value of<site>in the URL is the one you should use.
- I used Python 3.7.2 and Django 2.0.10
- The admin account is just admin/admin.
- This app uses Julio M. Alegria's Simple Craigslist wrapper library